Forget what Dorothy said about not being in a certain state anymore. It looks like Google is in Kansas. And Missouri too.
Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) launched its long-awaited Google Fiber, the search giant's ultra high-speed network, Thursday in Kansas City, Kansas while also making a surprise announcement: the introduction of Google Fiber TV.
The two services will be available to Kansas City, Kansas, which waschosen last year after more than 1,100 cities applied to get the faster Internet.
But because the company was a little "ahead of schedule," Google also announced that the service will be available to some in Kansas City, Missouri as well.
The Fiber network offers speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. That's 100 times faster than what the average American Internet user currently has. The company says the average speeds for downloads are 5.8 megabits per second.
The event also included a demonstration of Google Fiber TV. The system will allow households to watch all their shows in HD, record up to eight shows at once, store 500 hours of HD video on the cloud and even control multiple televisions through the search giant's new tablet, the Nexus 7.
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