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Google turns down Rosedale’s Wi-Fi idea

BY SANGEETA SHASTRY

The Kansas City Star

Google has turned down a Kansas City, Kan., neighborhood’s plan to tap into the ultra-fast Internet connections promised by the Internet company and create a kind of Wi-Fi cooperative.

Michael Liimatta, co-founder of local nonprofit Connecting for Good, said Google told the groups involved that the idea wasn’t in line with planned licensing agreements for the new product, Google Fiber.

Google says the new service will deliver speeds of up to one gigabit per second, allowing for downloads about 100 times as fast as the national average and uploads 1,000 times as fast. Google announced in spring 2011 that it was coming to this market, choosing Kansas City over more than 1,100 other communities that begged to be first. Since then, it has said very little about what it is bringing to town.

 

About Rick Deane

Rick started working in the community in the late 80's. As a teenager he helped with the mobile crime watch in his neighborhood. Later, he interned with the Jackson County Combat Commission. In 1998, he began working with the Kansas City Neighborhood Alliance where he led the efforts to develop a comprehensive web site to serve community groups throughout the metro area. In 2006 Rick formed NPO Tech Support where he has continued to serve the technology needs of nonprofits in the Kansas City area. He is no stranger to wi-fi technology and neighborhood networks. He installed six community networks for One Economy when they were working to bridge the digital divide in Kansas City. Contact Rick by phone: 913-548-2256

28. June 2012 by Rick Deane
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