Thanks Shane453 - that explination was a big help and the map in the PDF link looks a lot like what OKCs city limits should look like (if it was up to me).

Fiber Optics | Google Fiber : 1 Gbps High Speed Broadband Networks (http://www.googlefiber.com/fiber-optics/)


Please vote and pass this on to your friends. I'd really like to see us win andget the Google Fiber. Our city deserves this.

SoonerQueen, I couldn't agree more! Your efforts to try and motivate the angry pilgrims of OKC will be an uphill battle, as evidenced by our city's WHOPPING 61 VOTES as of the time of this post! PATHETIC! Come on people, just getting on that mile-long list is one thing. LOOK at the way NC and SC have pushed out the votes. IMPRESSIVE!

Well, I will do my part and forward this and follow-up with as many people as I can, TODAY!

I voted for OKC but obviously someone has figured out how to rig the numbers. There is no way a higher percentage of people in Greenville, SC have voted on the Google site than has completed the US Census.

"Every individual can cast a vote once per day. That is, you can keep supporting your city for all 30 days but not multiple times a day."

Don't cheat: Topeka "Google", KS cheated and now they are out of the race.

"Every individual can cast a vote once per day. That is, you can keep supporting your city for all 30 days but not multiple times a day."

Don't cheat: Topeka "Google", KS cheated and now they are out of the race.

Any idea how they cheated?

Casting thousands of empty votes -- same people voting multiple times a day.

I'd like to amend what I said earlier - they got reset back to 0, not dropped from the race. My apologies.

Kind of already a thread about this:

http://www.okctalk.com/okc-metro-area-talk/21080-okc-makes-formal-pitch-google-fiber-network.html

am I missing something here? This website has nothing to do with google at all, just an amateur blog about the project. The project is currently in the "planning behind closed doors" phase. The only real website that has info on the selection process, as far as I know, is...Google Fiber for Communities: Think big with a gig (http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/)

I did vote for us though....

am I missing something here? This website has nothing to do with google at all, just an amateur blog about the project.

This note is on the web site.


Note: This Open poll is not affiliated with Google and the entire activity is meant to keep the supporters engaged and excited about Google Fiber. However, we believe that audience participation in the poll clearly reflects the enthusiasm of participating communities towards Google Fiber.

Ultra-fast Google Fiber seeks to expand in 9 metro areas, including San Jose - San Jose Mercury News (http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25180109/google-plans-big-expansion-fiber-internet-service-invites)

I read this, and realize that for expanding something like a high-speed fiber presence, it takes a whole constellation of things to line up...what would it take for OKC to go after Google in pursuit of this?

I recall some other discussion of something similar to this many months ago....while I lack the business acumen to figure out how you would go about creating a "pitch" for Google to consider OKC as another expansion market, I sure bet the creative folks in the business community could figure it out. My take is simply this - What is there to lose? The absolute worst they can do is say, "no," and we go on down the road.

In the midst of our downtown rebuild and in our effort to foster "out of the box" thinking (the kind of thinking that, as an example, got us the NBA), I'd have to think there's a credible angle to explore that would make this a good move. We're centrally located, decent if not overwhelming population density, reasonably tech savvy it seems, and certainly no lack of appetite for broadband. Would be a huge feather in the cap, I'd think.

This would be amazing. Like you, I don't have the business acumen for organizing this, but I'd be more than willing to help in any way I can if there's someone who can organize/run with this. I have worked in the tech sector in OKC for almost 20 years, so have some experience there that might be useful.

I think the pitch could be built around "emerging top cities" concept, and our creation of the "hi-tech triangle" (The fiber network between OKC, Tulsa, and Stillwater - Onenet).

Why wait for Google? Let's just build it ourselves as a public utility.

Couldn't find the old thread we had on this, but Google has selected 9 markets to explore expanding into and is inviting up to 34 cities into the program

Google Fiber coming to a city near you - Feb. 19, 2014 (http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/19/technology/google-fiber/index.html)

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/140219142409-google-fiber-cities-620xa.jpg


In Kansas City and Provo, the ultra-fast Internet service costs $70 a month. Add video and it bumps up the price to $120. Google is also offering slower, free Internet for at least seven years for a construction fee, which ranges between $30 and $300.

Couldn't find the old thread we had on this, but Google has selected 9 markets to explore expanding into and is inviting up to 34 cities into the program

Google Fiber coming to a city near you - Feb. 19, 2014 (http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/19/technology/google-fiber/index.html)

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/140219142409-google-fiber-cities-620xa.jpg

I posted a link on this earlier. Wish OKC could go after Google and try to twist their arm to come here.

And don't you know that the idea of free, slightly slower internet scares the unadulterated crapola out of Cox?

They've got a cable monopoly, but I don't think they were ever given an Internet monopoly :)

There is buzz around that Google will announce tomorrow they are bringing their ultra-fast fiber optic internet service to OKC.

In Kansas City, you can get 1 gigabit (!) service for only $70 / month. You can basically stream anything with that capacity.

oh man... if that happens and if it comes to my neighborhood... it's 'adios' to cox for me. -M

Terrific news if true.

They offer their own TV service as well bundled with the internet.

It's similar to FIOS which I had in California, which I absolutely loved. And Google Fiber is supposed to be better.

Plus, all types of options for businesses.


Pretty sure there is going to be a press conference with the mayor tomorrow making the announcement.

there is buzz around that google will announce tomorrow they are bringing their ultra-fast fiber optic internet service to okc.

In kansas city, you can get 1 gigabit (!) service for only $70 / month. You can basically stream anything with that capacity.

yahooo!!!!

The next earthquake you feel will be Cox shaking in its boots as a huge crack in the base of its (near) monopoly is realized :)

This is awesome.

There is buzz around that Google will announce tomorrow they are bringing their ultra-fast fiber optic internet service to OKC.

In Kansas City, you can get 1 gigabit (!) service for only $70 / month. You can basically stream anything with that capacity.

Wow. That's what I currently pay for Cox. This might explain why Cox just announced a speed increase for the OKC area. Hopefully the Uptown/23rd area gets fiber.

yahooo!!!!

no, not yahoo... google. : )

-M

no, not yahoo... google. : )

-M

RIM-SHOT award granted :)

There's obviously no way of knowing for sure exactly what kind of service Google might ultimately offer here in OKC, but here is a link to what they are offering right now in KC:

https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/#plan=gigabit-tv

A few highlights:

* Eight-program DVR,
* HD content everywhere
* NO DATA CAPS
* First TV box (converter equivalent) free, additional for $5/month. Each box has a built-in WiFi access point. If you have two boxes from Cox, you're paying $17.00/month (2x$8.50), and the same thing from Google would be $5. You save $12/month before you ever start.

Looks to me like their TV lineup has everything I'd possibly want plus more. This is an incredibly great thing!!

Or, as I see on some forums, "Great thing is great."

Wooo! Look for Cox to drop prices and quickly.

They offer their own TV service as well bundled with the internet.

It's similar to FIOS which I had in California, which I absolutely loved. And Google Fiber is supposed to be better.

Plus, all types of options for businesses.


Pretty sure there is going to be a press conference with the mayor tomorrow making the announcement.

Please be real please be real please be real

I have no idea how old this page is (and it may disappear until tomorrow if the rumors are true) but... there's a page up on the City's website about throwing OKC's hat in the ring for a Fiber expansion: http://www.okc.gov/google/thinking.html

I have no idea how old this page is (and it may disappear until tomorrow if the rumors are true) but... there's a page up on the City's website about throwing OKC's hat in the ring for a Fiber expansion: http://www.okc.gov/google/thinking.html

People are watching us!!! That page is already gone. Or at least I couldn't link to it. BWAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!

Yeah it's definitely gone.

Yeah it's definitely gone.

I pulled up some cached content from Google and it is basically some combined responses to a city questionnaire that was done about throwing OKC's hat in the ring for Google Fiber!!!

It was last scraped for Google's archives/caches on the 25th.

Awesome, and kind of annoying, I literally just signed up for service with Cox at my new condo.

Oh well, it's not like this is a service that will instantly appear the day of the announcement, and I do kind of need internet sooner rather than quite a bit later.

Here's the cached page if anyone wants to see it: City of Oklahoma City (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.okc.gov/google/thinking.html)

Hearing there is a press conference scheduled for 1PM tomorrow.

Hearing there is a press conference scheduled for 1PM tomorrow.

This has to be one of the largest announcements of the year. This could be such a disruptive force - can't wait.

This could be very very very big for the city.

Monopoly busting. One of my favorite things to observe.

This would be great news, but the build out will likely take at least a few years from announcement to operational network. Although it will have an pretty instant effect on AT&T and Cox, pushing prices down and speed/caps up. They also ran into a lot of issues in Austin getting access to poles owned by others because they only have to provide access to utilities and Fiber wasn't (although, I guess now High Speed Internet is a utility per the FCC). I also know they've been working on Atlanta for about two years now and there is still no service.

One thing they have also done, at least in the original cities, is they will not start building until X number of people sign up and pay an up front deposit. No idea if they are still doing this or not, though.

Another plus is they've had the same prices in KC since they first offered service, unlike Cox that raises their price $5 every year.

Awesome, and kind of annoying, I literally just signed up for service with Cox at my new condo.


Cox is currently in the process of rolling out their own Gigabit service in OKC. It will be interesting to see how they price it going against Google.

It's bigger then just adding competition to a market. We're on googles radar now, along with any company that likes to do business with Google. Validates the city in a way, not too dissimilar the way the nba validated it.

Cox is currently in the process of rolling out their own Gigabit service in OKC. It will be interesting to see how they price it going against Google.

They'll go toe to toe with google, what other choice do they have? They'll try to build a better package then google. Like 500mbs but more channels. Competition is good, cox isn't going to fold up and die, they're just going to have to compete. Welcome to the free market cox, let's see how you do. Ultimately, the consumer wins.

They'll go toe to toe with google, what other choice do they have? They'll try to build a better package then google. Like 500mbs but more channels. Competition is good, cox isn't going to fold up and die, they're just going to have to compete. Welcome to the free market cox, let's see how you do. Ultimately, the consumer wins.

Not to mention, for Cox the upgrades to convert their system to deliver Gigabit service are much cheaper than for Google to lay out all their infrastructure, so they can compete on price pretty easy. A non trivial reason cable speeds plateaued at the current level is they blew past what the telcos could offer as a premium internet service with their existing infrastructure. Sure Google can eventually offer higher speeds with fiber than the cable companies with coax last miles but at this point we are probably a few years away from services to individuals or families that even Gigabit speed will be fully utilized.

One other thing is with no bandwidth cap, it pressures the others not to actually start acting on the ones they have tagged into the services but at least currently are not doing anything with the wired versions.

Bumping this up in advance of today's expected announcement.

Cox is currently in the process of rolling out their own Gigabit service in OKC. It will be interesting to see how they price it going against Google.

I've read pretty consistently where Cox has already rolled it out that they're pricing it at $99/mo.

No idea how bundles or discounts or similar promos might affect that.

Not to mention, for Cox the upgrades to convert their system to deliver Gigabit service are much cheaper than for Google to lay out all their infrastructure, so they can compete on price pretty easy. A non trivial reason cable speeds plateaued at the current level is they blew past what the telcos could offer as a premium internet service with their existing infrastructure. Sure Google can eventually offer higher speeds with fiber than the cable companies with coax last miles but at this point we are probably a few years away from services to individuals or families that even Gigabit speed will be fully utilized.

One other thing is with no bandwidth cap, it pressures the others not to actually start acting on the ones they have tagged into the services but at least currently are not doing anything with the wired versions.

I suspect one reason we're seeing Gigablast from Cox is because they had a pretty strong hunch Google Fiber was coming. Also, it sure seems to me that Google Fiber is inherently future-proofed because the technology is so fundamentally superior with a huge upside. Cox is constantly depending on reinventions of cable plants, bandwidth sparing, compression, and the like to squeeze every last drop of bitness from their existing physical plant. That's the other side of the long-term future of cable - not just the loss of subscribers to other providers, but that big coax cable laying in the ground. There's only so far they can milk it.

This all makes me sad as my apt is AT&T exclusive

This all makes me sad as my apt is AT&T exclusive

No worries, based on history once Google announces their next city, AT&T tends to magically announce availability of its GigaPower service. I wouldn't be shocked if in a few months AT&T makes a similar announcement.

No worries, based on history once Google announces their next city, AT&T tends to magically announce availability of its GigaPower service. I wouldn't be shocked if in a few months AT&T makes a similar announcement.

Cox threw some sort of a PR hissy fit toward one of its customer cities in California when it went all crazy for Google Fiber. Seems like it was just within the last few months.

Amazing what competition does to someone who's never really had it.

Bumping this up in advance of today's expected announcement.

What's the expected announcement? I'm out of the loop.

What's the expected announcement? I'm out of the loop.

Strong indications of a possible announcement this week (today?) about OKC getting Google Fiber. Presser at 1pm today (28 Oct):

http://www.okctalk.com/general-civic-issues/36825-how-might-okc-pursue-google-fiber-expanding-9-metro-areas.html

This would be great news, but the build out will likely take at least a few years from announcement to operational network. Although it will have an pretty instant effect on AT&T and Cox, pushing prices down and speed/caps up. They also ran into a lot of issues in Austin getting access to poles owned by others because they only have to provide access to utilities and Fiber wasn't (although, I guess now High Speed Internet is a utility per the FCC). I also know they've been working on Atlanta for about two years now and there is still no service.

One thing they have also done, at least in the original cities, is they will not start building until X number of people sign up and pay an up front deposit. No idea if they are still doing this or not, though.

Another plus is they've had the same prices in KC since they first offered service, unlike Cox that raises their price $5 every year.

Another plus is even if you don't switch to Google, experience in other markets show the legacy providers (in our case Cox) are forced to reduce prices and improve services to survive in a suddenly competitive market.

OKCTalk - Google Fiber coming to Oklahoma City (http://www.okctalk.com/content/218-google-fiber-coming-oklahoma-city.html)

What does expansion look like for this? I mean are we going to see it in all the metro? Edmond, Moore, Norman, etc...

Will cities like Moore Norman etc also be getting Google Fiber when they come?

^

Yes, when Google Fiber goes into a market they usually go into the suburbs as well.

Might take a little longer but Edmond and Norman can almost be guaranteed of getting the service.

Nice! Now more households will have access OKCtalk.com

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss!!!

So what is the big deal about Google Fiber other than the "Google" name? What are the advantages over other cable or satellite companies? I saw somewhere where the slow internet access is free?

They bring fiber optic cable right to your door.

Then, you can either get the free internet access or a full gigabit (!) of service for $70 / month or TV + fast internet for $130.

They bring fiber optic cable right to your door.

Then, you can either get the free internet access or a full gigabit (!) of service for $70 / month or TV + fast internet for $130.

Yeah $130 for TV + Internet is an amazing deal compared to what you can currently get from Cox.