Kansas City With ample Google Fiber news — like last week's announcement of the order that Kansas City's 180 fiberhoods will receive service — coming straight from the source in recent weeks, it has been some time since we checked on the ad hoc efforts surrounding the arrival of Google's ultra high-speed internet service in Kansas City. But that dearth of coverage has not been for any lack of activity on the part of the people, companies and organizations orchestrating … read more

Kansas City Nearly two months have passed since the last installment of our Gig Bits series. That gap in coverage can be explained, in part, by the fact that it's been all quiet on the Fiber front — at least from Google's side, anyway. The Kansas City Star reported earlier this month that the timetable for Fiber has been pushed back from Google's onetime deadline of June 30. “We’ll have an announcement about Google Fiber this summer,” a Google spokeswoman … read more

Kansas City All this talk about Google Fiber Bars making anyone else hungry? Well worry not; we're here to help curb that appetite with another heaping helping of Gig Bits. TV tussle: As we reported Sunday, Google Fiber put its own unique twist on Google's customary April 1 fun, claiming that Google Fiber was actually a nutritional bar. But not everyone … read more

Kansas City Another day, another report of paperwork that could shed light on Google's plans for its Fiber network in Kansas City. FierceCable on Monday reported it had unearthed a patent application that indicates Google has developed a fiber deployment method and device that could allow the company to connect homes to its ultra high-speed network in Kansas City without digging trenches in the yards of subscribers. That news comes on the heels of reports that Google … read more

For a project that's expected to enable uploads and downloads at ultra-fast speeds, Google Fiber has come into focus at a plodding pace. But thanks to reports that surfaced over the weekend and early this week, people are beginning to connect the dots between recent Google activity in two Silicon Prairie hubs. First, several outlets reported over the weekend that Google had submitted an amended application to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to build an antenna farm on the same … read more

Kansas City Following Google's announcement last Monday via its Fiber Blog that "Kansas City is Fiber-ready," Silicon Prairie News reached out to the Mountain View, Calif.-based search and advertising giant for additional details about the timeline for the implementation of its ultra high-speed network in the Kansas City area. The specifics of that timeline are TBD — or, at least, TBA. "We're building infrastructure, and so I guess the next step will be when we release all of our marketing and … read more

Kansas City Google announced in a blog post published in the wee hours this morning that crews in Kansas City are ready to begin construction of the company's much ballyhooed ultra high-speed fiber network. "We’ve measured utility poles; we’ve studied maps and surveyed neighborhoods; we’ve come up with a comprehensive set of detailed … read more