I live just down the road in Lawrence. We have AT&T, Knology, and a small, scrappy (disclaimer: that used to work for) community wireless startup in Lawrence Freenet.

Freenet has been pushing hard to work with the City of Lawrence on a fiber project that would be very similar to what Google would like to do. Having this happen in KC, KS will, I think, only help the Lawrence project.

If I am not mistaken, KC,KS is also getting 2000 Cerner jobs sometime in the next year(s). I can imagine the presence of Google Fiber will help draw a lot more area tech companies. At least I hope so.