Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Areas Opened for Sign-ups Indefinitely in Kansas City

As of today Kansas City, KS, KC Central, MO, and the South Kansas City, MO areas have been opened for sign-ups indefinitely. Only fiberhoods that met their goals during one of the previous rallies in those areas are eligible to signup though.

This change may have been because of this letter that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) sent to Larry Page (CEO/cofounder of Google) on February 5th, 2015.

http://cleaver.house.gov/sites/cleaver.house.gov/files/Letter%20-%20Close%20Digital%20Divide.pdf

This news site made the link that these two events might be related:
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/237472-after-dem-reps-request-google-reopens-local-fiber-signup

2 comments:

John Ruhlman said...

Why do you think they left out KC North?

CompTech said...

The most likely reason the two KC North areas were left out is because they are still under construction for a majority of the fiberhoods in them.
I expect they'll be opened for sign-ups indefinitely as well, once most of the fiberhoods are built out.