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NintendoPie on 26 July 2012
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happydolphin said:
NintendoPie said:
Holy Crap! That's extremely fast.

Why was it released in Kansas City first?

Apparently it won some kind of contest.

Google, which announced the project in February 2010, began construction of the network backbone in February. The company had said it expected to launch the network this summer. The idea behind Google Fiber is for the company to build a commercial fiber-based high-speed broadband network that Google and others can use to test new business models and applications that need very fast connections -- upward of 1Gbps. Thousands of cities competed to be the home of the future network. And Kansas City won.

I only read until I get bored... I guess I got bored before I got to that part.