Google Fiber Delays Broadband Award To 2011

coondoggie writes "The response to the invitation to become a test market for Google's planned high-speed broadband network has been overwhelming, so much so the company today said it would delay awarding the system until 2011. According to a post in its website, Google said 1,100 communities and 194,000 individuals responded to its proposal. Google had hoped to award the test program this month."

Re:Another solution

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

What if some of those 1100 communities were to just build the fiber out themselves, instead of looking for Google to do it for them?

Then they'd be tied up in the courts for years as they are sued by telecom companies and eventually the project would be outlawed by new laws that would be passed in the state or locality by the shills the telecom companies paid to have elected. At least that's what has been happening in many such attempts.

Re:The Google way...

[theaceoffire]

Remember that time Google promised to hand out 10 million dollars, based on poorly conceptualized public participation, and then ran the participation part of it, got huge press for it, and then...

Oh that is right, they actually gave 50,000,000 dollars [blogspot.com] ($10 mil each for 5 projects).

So you are saying they will roll out Fiber to 5 times as many places as they promise?