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Just minutes after the city council of Olathe unanimously voted to have Google roll out its super-fast broadband to their city, Google made its own announcement:

“Another city in the Kansas City area is getting the chance to join the growing Silicon Prairie,” Google Fiber’s community manager, Rachel Hack wrote in a blog post.

Fiber gives customers broadband that’s 100 times faster than the average U.S. connection, or one gigabit-per-second for $70 a month, or $120 for the added cable-TV service. Google began rolling out the service in the Kansas City metro area last fall, following years of planning, and is already cited as the fastest ISP in the United States by Netflix.

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