We’ve come far since Google first started taking about launching a fiber-based ISP — from beta tests , to hopeful communities , to Topeka fools day , to choosing not one , but two Kansas Cities. Now, it’s “boots at the ground,” time in line with the Google Fiber blog: detail engineering starts now. Within the coming weeks, Kansas City residents (presumably on either side of the Kansas / Missouri border) can expect to look El Goog’s engineers measuring phone poles, gathering geographical data, and asking hard-hitting questions, like “What’s your address?” All this footwork may also help Google get a head start on building that sweet, ultra-high-speed gigabit network. Not the foremost glamorous little bit of Google magic we’ve ever seen, but it’s still exciting to listen to that preliminary work has begun. After all, it might be much more exciting if this were coming where we lived.
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