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By: Todd R. Weiss, eWeek
 
After a 16-month wait, Google announced that residents of Kansas City can now start signing up to receive gigabit-speed Internet and cable television service through Google Fiber starting in September. And rather than deciding on its own which neighborhoods will get the first service, Google is asking residents to gather their neighbors together to “lobby” for the first hook-ups through a sign-up competition that will last through Sept. 9, according to a July 26 blog post on the Google Fiber blog. The neighborhoods with higher numbers of preregistrations will be the first ones to get the services, according to the blog post from Kevin Lo, the general manager of Google Access.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Networking/Google-Fiber-Service-Launches-in-Kansas-City-With-Eye-Toward-Cable-TV-739905/?kc=rss