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Tweet Drat! Skipped over again! Shawnee on Thursday became the latest city to win the Google Fiber lotto. Google announced on its blog that the Shawnee City Council yesterday approved an agreement to bring the high-speed Internet and cable service to the city: Shawnee, which is right outside of Kansas City, is known as a [...]
Tweet “When is it coming here?” That’s the logical first question for a Google manager making a presentation in Johnson County — and that was the first question fielded by Carlos Casas, marketing manager at Google Fiber in Kansas City. Being pro-active can push a city further up the list, he said. Google Fiber recently [...]
Tweet Great news everyone! Google Fiber is expanding in Johnson County — and hopping right over Mission, Prairie Village, and several other municipalities contiguous to its already announce rollout areas all the way to Olathe! Olathe, Kan.! Which is, like, a full marathon’s distance away from downtown Kansas City! Oh, well. Google made the announcement [...]
Tweet The envy was closer to theoretical in August. But now it’s about to get real. Westwood sent a notice to residents this week inviting them to a community meeting about Google Fiber’s second rally phase — of which Westwood, Westwood Hills and Mission Woods are to be a part. The session is scheduled for the [...]
Tweet SureWest Communications informed Prairie Village officials this week that the cable and internet provider would not be expanding service into the city in 2013. The news comes as a disappointment to city administrators — and many Prairie Village residents, no doubt — who had hoped to see more competition in the area. Time Warner [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents continue to speak. The question soon will become, “Does Google Fiber hear us?” And, “Do they care?” Resident Mark Logan reports that the petition drive he spearheaded in July to bring Google Fiber to Prairie Village has surpassed its initial goal of 500 signatures — and topped 900 as of earlier [...]
Tweet Google Fiber is all the buzz these days, throughout Kansas City and northeast Johnson County. But while communities are begging Google to extend its ultra-fast fiber service to their homes, fiber lines are already being laid through many of those front yards. Right now SureWest is laying fiber in Fairway and has wired Mission [...]
Tweet Prairie Village’s interest in Google Fiber has been noticed, a Google representative told group of about 20 representatives from Prairie Village Wednesday during a tour of the Google Fiber headquarters at 43rd Street and State Line Road in KCMO. But that doesn’t mean warp speed internet is coming to PV soon. The group included [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents pushing for Google Fiber to take a look at extending the service to the city will tour the local Google headquarters in Westport Wednesday along with some members of the city staff. The meeting, announced on the Prairie Village Web site and Facebook page Tuesday, is already full, according to City [...]
Tweet Consider the Prairie Village administration office a bit flummoxed – and perhaps somewhat annoyed — at the news last week that Google Fiber had cut deals with three northeast Johnson County cities to offer its highspeed internet and television services to residents. “You could say it caught us off guard,” City Administrator Quinn Bennion [...]
Tweet Remember how last week we were bemoaning the fact that the Prairie Village area didn’t seem particularly likely to have access to Google Fiber’s services in the near future? Well…nothing is certain, but a post on the Google Fiber blog Friday might suggest that a Google Fiber future for all of northeast Johnson County [...]
Tweet At the northeast corner of State Line and Westport Roads in Kansas City, Mo. — roughly half a mile from Johnson County and just feet from the state of Kansas — Google last week opened the home base of its new Fiber ultra-highspeed Internet and television service. For residents of northeast Johnson County, the new “Fiber [...]
Tweet SureWest, a traditional cable provider whose services compete with Time Warner Cable, is moving into northeast Johnson County — but how far it will come remains to be seen. Fairway residents earlier this week received a notice from the city alerting them to installation work that will be carried out by SureWest crews in the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village residents wishing they had more choices for cable providers in the area may get an assist from city hall later this week. City Administrator Quinn Bennion says he plans to send a letter to SureWest Communications by the end of the week expressing the city’s interest in having additional providers serve the [...]
Tweet Prairie Village City Administrator Quinn Bennion reported earlier this week that Sure West communications, a traditional cable company that offers high speed internet and home phone services as well, is considering whether to enter the Prairie Village market. The company recently completed infrastructure build outs to serve parts of northeast Johnson County, including Roeland [...]
