Cities Go Crazy In Order To Get Google's Attention For 1Gbps Internet

Last month, Google shook up the ISP landscape in a big way, and all with the stroke of the (digital) pen. The company announced that they would soon begin testing a 1Gbps home fibre network, which could provide home Internet speeds that could only be realised in one's imagination before.

First, we heard that the city of Seattle was pushing hard to be Google's first test market. Their reasoning was sound: Seattle is a "techy" city, it's close to Google's Northern California headquarters and there are tons and tons of potential customers. But that wasn't enough. We later heard that Topeka, Kansas was renaming itself "Google, Kansas" for the month of March...

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