Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes

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I can't help but feel a little cheated. I understand why this was the right decision for Google but for them to announce they are looking nationwide, for people to send them emails pleading their case for their hometown and then to see them say, "oh yeah Stanford gets it" - it feels like they made this conclusion before even the initial announcement.

This is something different:

>To be clear, this trial is completely separate from our community selection process (http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/) for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing.

The Stanford Project is a lot smaller (850 homes, compared to 50k - 500k people in Google Fiber). They say it'll help Google Fiber:

>We’ll be able to take what we learn from this small deployment to help scale our project more effectively and efficiently to much larger communities.

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