Learn Super Fast Fiber For Kansas City

Our finish is to ready products that volition assist improve our users’ lives. And when it comes to Internet access, it's clear what provides a meliorate user experience:

Fast is meliorate than slow. On the web, nobody wants to await for a video to buffer or a website to load.
Abundance is meliorate than scarcity. There’s a plethora of rich content available online—and it’s increasingly solely available to people who accept the speeds as well as way to access it.
Choice is meliorate than no choice. Competition as well as selection assist brand products meliorate for users.

With that inwards mind, nosotros embarked on a journeying to lead ultra-high speeds to Kansas City, Kan. as well as Kansas City, Mo. And today, we’re excited to denote Google Fiber. Google Fiber is 100 times faster than today’s average broadband. No to a greater extent than buffering. No to a greater extent than loading. No to a greater extent than waiting. Gigabit speeds volition larn rid of these pesky, archaic problems as well as opened upward up novel opportunities for the web. Imagine: instantaneous sharing; genuinely global education; medical appointments alongside 3D imaging; fifty-fifty novel industries that nosotros haven’t fifty-fifty dreamed of, powered past times a gig.

When nosotros asked people what they value inwards their Internet service, the bulk of them exactly said, “choice.” So nosotros listened. Kansas Citians volition pick out where nosotros install as well as when. We’ve divided Kansas City into pocket-size communities nosotros telephone telephone “fiberhoods.” To larn service, each fiberhood needs a critical bulk of their residents to pre-register. The fiberhoods alongside the highest pre-registration pct volition larn Google Fiber first. Households inwards Kansas City tin compass the sack pre-register for the side past times side vi weeks, as well as they tin compass the sack rally their neighbors to pre-register, too. Once the pre-registration menses is over, residents of the qualified fiberhoods volition hold upward able to pick out betwixt 3 dissimilar packages (including TV).

It’s piece of cake to forget how revolutionary high-speed Internet access was inwards the 1990s. Not solely did broadband kill the screeching sound of dial-up, it also spurred innovation, helping to practice amazing novel services every bit good every bit novel task opportunities for many thousands of Americans. But today the Internet is non every bit fast every bit it should be. While high speed applied scientific discipline exists, the average Internet speed inwards the USA is even as well as thence solely 5.8 megabits per second (Mbps)—slightly faster than the maximum speed available xvi years agone when residential broadband was get-go introduced. Access speeds accept exactly non kept measuring alongside the phenomenal increases inwards computing ability as well as storage capacity that’s spurred conception over the end decade, as well as that’s a challenge we’re excited to function on.

To honor out to a greater extent than close the dissimilar service packages as well as the pre-registration procedure run across our Google Fiber Blog, which we’ll regularly update alongside novel data over the coming weeks. This is an exciting novel projection for Google as well as nosotros can’t await to larn homes connected to Google Fiber inwards Kansas City—because we’re pretty certainly that what people practice alongside a gig volition hold upward awesome.

Posted past times Milo Medin, Vice President, Access Services

(Cross-posted from the Google Fiber Blog)