”The first construction has already begun” on Google Fiber in...
"The first construction has already begun” on Google Fiber in Kansas City, Mo., and Kan., said Google’s Motorola Mobility Vice President Rick Whitt at the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors annual meeting in New Orleans Saturday. Google expects…
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the first of the company’s “fiberhoods,” which contain about a thousand households each and mirror traditional neighborhoods, to go up within the next three months, he said. Google will install 180 fiberhoods overall, first on the Kansas side, then the Missouri side, the company said earlier this fall (CD Sept 14 p14. The first fiberhood will be Hanover Heights, Kan., Google said earlier. Whitt emphasized in a Saturday panel that “socioeconomic factors were not at all utilized when we figured this out.” It’s actually more expensive for Google to build in richer neighborhoods because the conduits tend to be buried out in the suburban areas, he said. The notion that any poorer neighborhoods would be left behind isn’t accurate, he said.