Google receives 'more than 1,100 community responses' for gigabit fiber network

Ever wondered what it looks like when the entire nation wants a piece of Google? Well, we've already seen some crazy action in a few cities, but here's a bigger picture -- a map showing the vast lot of locations that have signed up for Google's experimental 1Gbps fiber network service. What's more, the number of community submissions almost doubled between 10am and the 5pm deadline, resulting "more than 1,100 community responses and more than 194,000 responses from individuals." Yep, that sure is a lot of paperwork to go through, but Google reckons it'll have a location or two picked "by the end of the year." Meanwhile, let's hope that these Googletown-wannabes will churn out enough nutso videos to keep us entertained.

[Volatile Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:19PM]

I think it goes without saying I wish this would be in my town....and it also goes without saying it wont be =(

[DaveBach Posted Mar 28th 2010 5:14PM]

@Volatile

I wish you luck but also appreciate your realism. I'm always reminding our 11 year old that it's not so much about getting what you want as much as it is about being happy with what you have.

With that said it appears that there are a lot of wants in the Chicago/Milwaukee area from both individuals and government as a whole. If we got this I could be very happy with what I have. :)

[Omen20 Posted Mar 28th 2010 5:17PM]

As always, North and South Dakota do not exist. If they ever have a natural disaster, FEMA is going to have to check the map just to find them.

[max1c Posted Mar 28th 2010 6:40PM]

@Volatile Where I live in FL it looks pretty crowded on that map so maybe there is some hope:D

[tmark1986 Posted Mar 28th 2010 6:41PM]

@Omen20 Who?

[Philip Han Posted Mar 28th 2010 8:46PM]

@DaveBach : What do you do if you get Google FiOS though?
Does that make him an ignorant spoiled SOB for the rest of his life?

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 28th 2010 10:58PM]

@Volatile Yeah, it would be really cool to say we have Google internet, but in reality, Comcast is already providing more bandwidth than I can figure out how to suck down, and 100/15 is coming soon.

[DaveBach Posted Mar 29th 2010 2:47AM]

@Philip Han

Philip Han, are you saying my wife could potentially be a biotch?

lol

[MrPacMan36 Posted Mar 29th 2010 3:06AM]

@max1c

I use to live in Coral Springs, but I moved to a small town near Tallahassee, and that little dot where Tallahassee is, I think was me, xD

[norseman Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:21PM]

I hope Cityplace in downtown Toronto receives Gigabit internet as we already have fiber all setup for 100mbit. This would be great news!

[Prevacator Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:32PM]

@norseman
Last I checked Toronto isn't in the U.S.

[delphinus87 Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:45PM]

@norseman You have 100Mbps already? And you now want 1Gbps? Really?


Really?

[MRCUR Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:52PM]

@Prevacator - When did you last check?

[wesg Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:01PM]

@norseman I wish more of Canada could get fiber access

[Physicsguy89 Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:30PM]

@delphinus87

Really norseman? Really?!

And that concludes our new segment, "Really with delphinus87 and physicsguy89".

[Harrison Posted Mar 28th 2010 6:12PM]

@Physicsguy89 Probably better than half of Fox's weeknight programming.

[RickStar Posted Mar 28th 2010 9:38PM]

@Prevacator

Last I knew there was a Toronto in Ohio, Kansas, South Dakota, and I'm sure several others.

[wizardsleeves Posted Mar 28th 2010 11:43PM]

@RickStar Do they all have something called cityplace?

[RickStar Posted Mar 31st 2010 5:19PM]

@wizardsleeves

...Maybe one does... I've only been to the Ohio one... I'll find out someday, just for you.

[inertone Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:22PM]

make that 110and1!
i want that fiber network in MY community
actually...just for me!

[Snarf101 Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:22PM]

Pick my town Mr. Schmidt!!

[Sean Parker Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:22PM]

Surprise! People like free stuff.

[exstrat Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:54PM]

@Sean Parker

Free? I would gladly pay just to have more competition in the market. It's because of the lack of competition due to many technical, financial, and legal situations that everyone's internet is still stuck in the late 90's/early 2k.

I live in San Francisco, as hi-tech as SF claims to be, our internet/cable options are terrible thanks to Comcast's dictatorship ways.

[THJ Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:23PM]

1Gbps to residential customers? I'm either reading this wrong, or a Leprechaun just rode by on a Unicorn.

[NeoJew Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:31PM]

@THJ
A leprechaun riding by on a unicorn is very unlikely, but seeing as how you did read the article right, it must have just happened. Someone should contact the media.

[THJ Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:14PM]

@NeoJew He was last seen in Mobile, Alabama (sorry, couldn't resist):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nda_OSWeyn8

[krische Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:20PM]

@THJ

Nope, your computer is just heating up the plastics in it. That is slowly releasing toxins into the air around you. As you breath them in, you hallucinate of 1 Gbps internet to your house.

[Nick Meijer Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:53PM]

@THJ Wow, I misread it as: "or a Leprechaun just got rode by a Unicorn".. Now THAT would be unlikely..

[KupoCheer Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:24PM]

A lot of Vermont competition, since our area is still in the stone age when it comes to connectivity. It would be great to have some competition for the (bankrupt) Charter monopoly.

[ejc891 Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:24PM]

I know they will come to my town! Ann Arbor FTW!

[spasewalkr Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:25PM]

come on google, ann arbor loves you! ;)

[Templarian Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:31PM]

@spasewalkr, also being in Michigan I have to say Kalamazoogle sounds better. :) And they are the only large city lit up dots.

[MVP Posted Mar 28th 2010 5:02PM]

@spasewalkr
Let's just put it near our capital instead. East Lansing anyone?

[xsirxx Posted Mar 28th 2010 5:25PM]

@spasewalkr

Ann Harbors a whore.

[Templarian Posted Mar 28th 2010 5:31PM]

@Templarian, that was suppose to be not large city.

[habes Posted Mar 28th 2010 6:29PM]

@spasewalkr

ann arbor loves google a lot... they are digitizing our library and they have an office here... not to mention this is where larry page went to undergrad... come one google!!!!

[AntiYou Posted Mar 28th 2010 6:44PM]

@habes
come one google! Come all!

[theSleeper Posted Mar 28th 2010 7:32PM]

@spasewalkr

I'm really hoping the work we've done with them so far convinces them to bring it here. It just might make me stick around for grad school

[bahoo Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:26PM]

Looks like there's a decent calling near my hometown. That'd be sweet to get it.

[New Reformation Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:26PM]

Memphis beseeches you! Please bring the fiber to our city!!! (The benefits to St Jude's Children's Hospital alone would be tremendous)

[JRKScope Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:04PM]

@New Reformation Woot! St Jude's Children's center! I volunteered for the Children's cancer center at the American University Hospital in Beirut which is affiliated to that.

[jjrudey Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:28PM]

Western New York

[montusama Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:38PM]

@jjrudey

Yes Western New York!
Come to Buffalo Google.

[Prevacator Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:39PM]

@montusama
Western New Yorkers unite!

[Khalid Shahin Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:28PM]

Come on Google, pick Boston and the rest of Massachusetts. High demand for faster internet speeds in Boston, and this map just proves it.

[jrm125 Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:18PM]

@Khalid Shahin

Agreed, especially considering we don't get FIOS.

[krische Posted Mar 28th 2010 4:22PM]

@Khalid Shahin

I thought the city had to be under 500,000 people?

[TerrorX Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:31PM]

now if only they could bring this to Canada D:

[Prevacator Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:33PM]

Look at all the responses coming in from Western New York!

OH PLEASE GOOGLE, OH PLEASE COME HERE!

[VDubb Posted Mar 28th 2010 3:35PM]

Whichever town is selected, I'm moving there! :D