10-02-2017, 09:37 PM
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Misse...ber-140435
Quote:Motherboard recently spent some time talking to locals in Kansas City to determine the fate of Google Fiber's dedication to the area, and found a decidedly mixed bag. Once held up as the vanguard of the company's attempts to disrupt the uncompetitive broadband market, the future of Google Fiber's deployment in the city appears very much in question.
Another, very similar story popped up last week in the Kansas City Star, in which the Kansas Corporation Commission confirmed that Google missed deadlines to bring service throughout four Kansas cities -- Mission Hills, Westwood, Westwood Hills and Kansas City. Google promised in 2012 to bring connectivity to these regions within five years. That report was followed by an editorial by the paper questioning the company's dedication to a project it hyped for years.
The report is clear to note that Google Fiber has had a scattered, positive impact on many communities, but locals are pretty clearly growing agitated by the company's refusal to seriously address the company's obvious wavering enthusiasm. Similar questions have started bubbling up in Google Fiber markets like Atlanta, where locals also say the company's deployment cadence has notably slowed.
In each instance, Google Fiber isn't helping itself by simply regurgitating PR missives that don't seriously acknowledge any of this is happening.