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.
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