To pass the 149,000 households in the Kansas...
To pass the 149,000 households in the Kansas City area without connecting any homes, Google will spend $84 million as part of the first phase of its Google Fiber buildout, Bernstein Research estimated in a Monday paper. The potential cost…
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would break down to $38 million in Kansas City, Kan., and $46 million in Kansas City, Mo., the researchers said. The Missouri side of Kansas City has a higher density of households, where cost per home would be about $500 versus about $674 on the Kansas side of the border, they estimated. Google will spend another $10 million to connect about 12,000 households on the first day of service, the report estimated. Google is planning an announcement in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, widely speculated to be about the next Google Fiber deployment, as a grassroots Google Fiber Austin Texas blog has already begun documenting (http://bit.ly/ZdqZVY). Google did not comment.