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City Builds Open-Access Broadband Network with Google Fiber as its First ISP

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday July 08 2020, @08:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the build-it-and-they-will-come dept.

Freeman writes:

City builds open-access broadband network with Google Fiber as its first ISP:

The West Des Moines government's announcement said that "once the City installs conduit in the public right of way, broadband providers will pay a license fee to install their fiber in the City's conduit. Google Fiber will be the first tenant in the network." A conduit-license agreement "calls for Google Fiber to cover a portion of the construction cost to build conduit... through their monthly lease payments."

"On a monthly basis, Google Fiber would pay the city $2.25 for each household that connects to the network," according to the Des Moines Register. Google Fiber would pay the city a minimum of $4.5 million over 20 years.

Construction is expected to begin this fall and be completed in about two and a half years, the city said.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by meustrus on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:15PM

    by meustrus (4961) on Thursday July 09 2020, @12:15PM (#1018617)

    Not Des Moines.

    West Des Moines is just another suburb. The metro area is small by national standards, but it is still the big city in the immediate area. So you still deal with big city problems - water quality sucks, there's definitely a bad part of town full of methheads, there are several black parts of town with racist cops patrolling - but missing some of the big city amenities.

    Feel free to move here if you like living in close proximity to hipsters and drug addicts, but still have to drive 4-6 hours to meet your favorite band or author somewhere big enough for them to bother stopping.

    And don't expect fiber unless you're willing to live in the most embarrassingly bourgeois part of the biggest city for hundreds of miles. If you want Norman Rockwell, you'll have to go a bit farther out of town.

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    I knock it, but I still live here. It's cheap, there are good software jobs, and I don't really care about the scenery.

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