Google's audacious bet on fiber -- and why it could workAugust 23, 2012: 7:01 AM ET, www.http://tech.fortune.cnn.com
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The news elicited a lot of excitement and envy from geeks outside of Kansas City, where Google (GOOG) had chosen to do a pilot run of the project. Not only would Google waive the $300 installation fee for early subscribers, it would give them online access that's 50 times faster than the 2-megabits-per-second access most Americans have lived with for much of the past decade.
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