said by tshirt:said by mob: Surewest is expanding their FTTH footprint in select areas, however none of those areas are in Kansas City Missouri or Kansas.
Incorrect.
Surewest bought a FTTH provider in KC 3-4 years ago that provide 100/100 service to part of the city.
So buying that part (or ALL) of surewest would give you their pole ROW, plus some local expertise on the build out history.
The reverse sceniro is to pay surewest to build out and operate the google-FI net during the experiment life, just as they have Sonic running the Stanford test.
google is learning from this, and the first lesson is it isn't as simple or quick as putting up Xmas lights in Mt view.
how many more years before this "flash build" is done?
Actually, Surewest bought out EverestKC, a cable company that has some FTTH services. The company provides far more traditional cable connections than it does FTTH connections, for now. If you want to call them up and find out how limited their FTTH deployment is, feel free their number is 913-825-3000
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