We're not (just) in Kansas anymore

摘要

First stop, Kansas City. Next stop, Austin. On April gth Google said that it had chosen the Texan capital as the second location for Google Fiber, an ultra-fast broadband network. Google will offer the same deal there as in Kansas City, where it began connecting households in November. For $70 a month it promises both downloads and uploads at a gigabit per second, fast enough to send a high-definition feature-length film in a few blinks, and a terabyte (ie, a shedload) of cloud storage. Television, with a Nexus tablet that serves as a controller, costs an extra $50. Google Fiber also offers a free version (after a connection fee). At five megabits per second for downloads, it is only a little slower, by Google's count, than the average for which Americans now pay.