How long until someone starts crying "Google is racist!" ?
http://voices.kansascity.com/entries...ig-kc-victory/
I did receive some backlash Thursday for this tweet: “Good #GoogleFiber: more speed. Bad #GoogleFiber: it’s for rich neigborhoods (pls. don’t pretend otherwise).”
That prompted some followers to make these points.
• Early adopters often pay more in technological breakthroughs (says the guy who spent $1,000 on a VCR in 1980).
• Google’s service will still be price competitive - and offer better speeds - than current providers.
Conceded.
However, Google’s own website showing which neighborhoods (I’m sorry, “fiberhoods”) were signing up for the service on Thursday and early Friday showed a predictable pattern:The more educated, middle- to upper-income neighborhoods in southwest KC and in midtown were signing up for first crack at the service.
Meanwhile, the neighborhoods without as many computers and without the income to afford the $70 or $120 proposed monthly charges for Google Fiber were signing up at far slower rates