Google Celebrates Its One Year Anniversary for Kansas City's Fiber

Happy one year anniversary to Kansas City's fiber! It sure has been a crazy year. There has been an explosion if growth with the Internet, which is fantastic! Again, happy fiberversary to Kansas City, and may more cities have fiber in the future!

Fiber in Vermont?

The idea of having rural Vermont be laid with fiber internet lines before large metropolises seems crazy, but not to Vermont Telephone Company. The company is currently offering fiber-to-the-home to only a few counties, but has aspirations to expand. VTel currently offers fiber connections for $35 per month, which slashes Google Fiber's cheapest plan in half. I wonder whether this pricing is sustainable, even though the general price of fiber is lowering. This exemplifies that fiber is starting to be rolled out all over the US, even in the most remote places.

Is Google Fiber Going to Austin?

There has been an explosion of rumors that Google Fiber is going to expand to Austin soon. And for the most part, those rumors are correct. Yesterday on the Google Fiber News section, a peculiar banner showed up: Google Fiber is Expanding to Austin, Texas. That pretty much sums up that Google Fiber will in fact be expanding to Austin Texas. Unfortunately, we do not have a timeline on rollout; so you Austinites probably have a year to get the celebration ready. Despite Google promoting that Fiber is what every American needs, do we actually need it? Google Fiber gives a speed of around 1 Gigabit per second. That is way faster than the average Joe Schmoe will need. And there is nothing we really need that speed for; besides for streaming movies on Netflix faster. Hopefully, Google or a third-party will come out with an application or product that will make you really want that 1 GB/s. Until then, I'm fine with my Comcast 100 MB/s.