Who Does Rural Kentucky Have to Blow to Get High-Speed Broadband?

Any moron can figure out how to get even more high-speed internet to city-dwellers who already have high-speed internet.

 

Get high-speed internet to a place that does not already have high-speed internet and can't get high-speed internet for any amount of money, then I'll be impressed.

 

Carl Franzen at TPM:

As promised, Google on Thursday unveiled and began taking pre-orders for its newest product, some of the fastest Internet service in the country: A 1-gigabit-per-second connection known as Google Fiber.

To put that in comparison, the average broadband internet connection speed across the U.S. is a measly 5.8 megabits-per-second. (Perhaps being charitable, Google claims its Google Fiber service is “100 times faster than today’s average broadband.”)

Google Fiber is for now limited to Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, neighboring cities on the Kansas state and Missouri border that make up the Kansas City metropolitan area, a location chosen after a two-year-long contest to determine the best community for Google to kick-off its quest to compete with existing internet service providers, cable giants such as Time Warner and Comcast.