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Media Minutes: Apri 8, 2011

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Google’s announcement that Kansas City, Kansas, is the winner of its year-long search for a city worthy of a 1GB fiber network left hundreds of other cities disappointed. And some of the losers may have their state’s anti-municipal broadband laws to blame for their loss. And the problems with American media are no laughing matter. Yet somehow, comedians are making it funny.

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Google’s announcement that Kansas City, Kansas, is the winner of its year-long search for a city worthy of a 1GB fiber network left hundreds of other cities disappointed. And some of the losers may have their state’s anti-municipal broadband laws to blame for their loss. And the problems with American media are no laughing matter. Yet somehow, comedians are making it funny.

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Google Picks Kansas City for Fiber Broadband Network

Google has announced the winner of its year-long search for a city worthy of a 1 Gigabit fiber-to-the-home broadband network. Fiber optics-based systems can deliver broadband services, like video, telephone and data, more efficiently than traditional copper cables. Kansas City, Kansas will begin offering its shared-access service in 2012.

Google said its goal was to find a location where it could build efficiently, make an impact on the community and develop relationships with local government and community organizations.

The announcement left hundreds of cities disappointed. Austin, Texas was a finalist in the process. Chip Rosenthal was co-founder of the Big Gig Austin initiative, the grassroots effort to support the city’s response to Google’s challenge.

He says that with Google’s tight schedule to be online in a year, any sm...
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