Interesting, because speed seems to be gathering.

Well, since last post, Google Fiber has announced a pretty large number of new neighborhoods in Kansas City KS/Kansas City MO, as well as a new city.   They're going into Provo UT.   In fact, essentially are there in Provo UT.   They're taking over the existing city fiber network, which they'll finish out.

We'll see at this end of this year how things are going in Kansas City, and during next year sometime what happens in Austin, and how things go in Provo during all that.

Really the only lesson here is that none of this is going to be instant or particularly widespread.     That calling this something like "just around the corner" in any of the three cities is rather premature, depending on which city it is.  Even in the farthest along places, it's not dominating or everywhere.   Being where Google Fiber is seems more a matter of luck.   Either way, it's not a thing that most people should be expecting to happen to them or soon.

Most people essentially being everyone that is not already pretty clearly in the path of pretty certain plans in those three cities.

Give it a few years.

The wishful thinking of you actually getting Google Fiber (or any fiber) in the next few decades. Unless you already have it, or a few other cases

Right now, there are plans for one other city to get Google Fiber, besides the one that has it.    The next city, starting out sometime next year, beginning in some place or another in that city.  That should come out sometime within the next year or year and a half until they actually start working on it.

Be that as proof of concept, experiment, publicity campaign, propaganda, fire under the staid interests of cable and phone and their non-competitive strangle-holds.    Potentially ignoring dark fiber and right of way and other fiber and cable and copper and PSTN and POTS and Satellite providers.   Not particularly important on the results side, just certainly a big deal on the implementation side of things.

But for now, forget about all that.    What (where) Google Fiber is?    Kansas City.    Both of them.

Oh, wow, but hey that's a whole big city, two cities, suburbs, lots of installs, right?    Yes, regardless of the sweetheart deals or what have you (that's just how it works) there is that -- it's someplace.  And it's now.

Yet what if you don't live in Kansas City?

Well, for that matter, what if you do.

The Experiment and your part in it all

When we say your part, we mean the part of a few key people here and there, which pretty much doesn't include you or anyone you know, or anyone you'll ever even meet.   In general we mean.

And what, prey tell, is this experiment?