Google Fiber reached agreement with another Kansas municipality...
Google Fiber reached agreement with another Kansas municipality Thursday. The city council of Shawnee, with about 60,000 residents outside the Kansas City area, voted to approve an agreement with the search-engine company. The deal “will enhance the quality of life…
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for people in Shawnee by providing faster access to essential digital resources” and “grow and strengthen Shawnee’s competitive advantage in the years to come,” said Mayor Jeff Meyers in a statement (http://bit.ly/Ysajzi). Google Fiber confirmed the agreement on its blog and praised Shawnee’s recent overhaul of its website (http://bit.ly/ZEPjUs). “We still have a lot of planning and engineering work to do before we're ready to bring Fiber to Shawnee, so we don’t have an estimate for when service will be available yet,” wrote Rachel Hack, Google Fiber community manager.