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"Overland Park, Kansas, apparently has its own version of the Seattle process. It spent nine months arguing the Google Fiber contract..."

Overland Park's haggling likely had more to do with the fact that Sprint is headquartered there.

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OP resident here. Probably not, as Sprint does not sell local ISP services. Could have been Time Warner though. That article is dated though, as Google is now building in OP. It actually worked out for the better as both Google and AT&T are laying fiber in OP; competing 1000/1000 services. My ISP (CCI) just bumped me from 30/5 to 100/5 for free. I can't wait to dump them though. Some areas of OP will have three competing 1000/1000 services; Google, AT&T, and CCI. My area was wired 10 years ago by CCI so it's just hybrid fiber-coax.

The real fuck-up is Leawood, KS though; just next door. Google pulled out recently when they were told no "new" ISP lines could be run on existing poles. It had to be 100% buried, despite existing cable ISP on poles:

http://www.govexec.com/state-local/2014/11/google-fiber-leaw...

It's been interesting to watch. I remember someone sending me a map of which areas of Kansas City agreed to Google's conditions to try and get Google fiber, and the city of Overland Park was a big obvious missing block.

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