Low Income Residents Want to Share Google Fiber > WiFi Sharing Cooperatives for Google Gigabit in KS

reply to davidhoffman

Re: WiFi Sharing Cooperatives for Google Gigabit in KS

There are 146,453 people in Kansas City, KS according to the 2010 US Census. At an average of 2 people per household, that equals 73, 226 households. If they had 100,00 netbooks to give away, they would more than cover the city's low income families.

As for Google Chrome vs. Linux Mint for an OS choice, I forgot Google had a netbook OS. My mistake. I have never seen a netbook running Google Chrome OS and had assumed the project was paused. I do know that a few variations of Linux are active and in use on netbooks.

Don't forget, KC, MO, is part of the project too.. Population about 450,000, and the potential is that the whole metro area could have coverage, population 1-2 million depending on how its counted and what you consider metro.

I did not forget KC, MO. I am making the assumption that KC, KS will be the first to have Google Gigabit, as that city was the winner of the competition. But, it could be that both KCs are activated at the same time. I do not think areas outside the legal boundaries of the two KCs are in the first parts of the experiment. I am not familiar with how the electrical distribution is done in that area. If the two KCs electric utilities also supply electricity to the surrounding small cities, then the agreements for pole placement may be able to be extended easily. Where I live, the electric cooperatives, private electric companies, and some municipal public electric utilities serve large geographic areas without regard to city, county, or state boundaries. They could easily agree to pole placements that cover their entire service areas without consulting or getting approval from each political entity. Do the electric utilities in KS and MO have similar boundary crossing freedoms?