Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Google Fiber Expansion

On March 24th Google Fiber announced one more metro area: Salt Lake City.

Here's the link to follow progress with each city:
https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

Google Fiber's blog post about Salt Lake City:
http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/google-fiber-is-coming-to-salt-lake-city.html

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