said by aaronwt:Why not FiOS areas? They are the only large provider that could have a possiblity of competing with the Google Fiber speeds.
And what ISP wants serious competition?
There's a difference between being THE competition and HAVING competition.
So think any cableco vs. googlefiber or fios vs. googlefiber. Which competition pair is most likely? Googlefiber can take on any cableco. Neither google nor verizon want to take each other on at this time. Neither one has pockets that deep. Shareholders won't allow it.
Besides, you know how long it took to fiber up your area. Do you think you could stand it again to wait for reality?
All the google hype now was fios hype in '05. You'll find that google, just like verizon is now, will turn into just another cableco. They're all in predictable life stages.
To the OP's question: if I was stuck with high price cable or slow tech dsl or worse, I'd be tempted, very tempted. But we know that Kansas City is a test bed for google's other dreams. Sure they can control the network and what's done on it, but that's nowhere near as lucrative to their main business.
Kansas City is just a means to another end.