Is Google Fiber Planning To Expand Beyond Kansas City?

Though it might seem unlikely, a few observers might think Google Fiber really could be something Google wants to pursue, beyond Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Mo.

So far, only Dow Drukker, senior vice president of CapStone Investments, has been willing to speculate somewhat seriously on the possibility.

“Initial Indications Google Fiber Is Likely Expanding Beyond Kansas City.
"We saw an ad for an Inside Sales position in Mountain View, Calif. for selling Google Fiber to small businesses," he says. The ad said the job would entail building a team to sell a national broadband network, Drukker says.

That indicates, at least to Drukker, that Google likely plans to build a 1-Gbps fiber access network in
additional cities.

Some of us continue to believe that would be a waste of capital on Google's part. More likely is an effort to sell Google capacity on its own backbone network, or an effort to resell local access capacity wholesaled from partners, if anything.