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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - More than 1,000 bodies showed up for a Google Fiber audience in Kansas City Saturday.

Residents were able to acquaintance the one gigabit network, said to be 100 times faster than what best bodies accept now, and ask questions about the system.

Google appear its affairs for the Google Fiber internet arrangement in a account appointment Thursday. The plan to accompany the arrangement to Kansas City has been in the works back March 30, 2011.

Rachel Hack, a Community Manager, believes the new accelerated internet will accommodate abiding allowances for Kansas City.

“Your admission to education, your admission to business opportunities, your admission to acquaint and allotment with the bodies you affliction about is better, it's faster, you're able to innovate and do things in means we've not yet apparent before,” Hack said. “We accept that this is activity to accomplish a aberration for Kansas City for years to come."

In accession to the faster than anytime internet, Google Fiber will additionally accommodate a television service. The TV amalgamation allows users to band up to eight shows at a time and provides up to 500 hours of recording storage.

“It’s not aloof Internet, and it’s not aloof TV," Google Vice President Milo Medin said. "It’s Google Fiber."

Google appear that the account will become accessible to those who demand it most. Residents allegation “raise their hand” and appearance absorption by pre-registering for a $10 fee on Google.com/fiber .

Google Fiber will alone be accessible to baddest “Fiberhoods” in Kansas City, Kan., and axial Kansas City, Mo.

Current pre-registration rankings appearance Wornall Homestead, Countryside and Greenway Fields as the Fiberhoods with the best pre-registrations.

Residents can clue how their Fiberhood is accomplishing by activity to the Google Fiber website, https://fiber.google.com/cities/kcmo/#header=check .

“We’re activity to body our arrangement wherever there’s interest,” said Google Admission General Manager Kevin Lowe, “and we’ll body eventually in areas area there’s the best interest.”

The pre-registration aeon will aftermost six weeks. The highest-ranked Fiberhoods will be appear Sept. 9.

“Each Kansas City ‘Fiberhood’ will abide of about 800 households,” Lowe said.

The ancient architecture amount for installing Google Fiber is $300.

From there, users accept from two packages; internet/TV and aloof internet.

The architecture fee will be waived for Fiber amalgamation purchases with the signing of two year affairs for the admixture amalgamation or a one year arrangement for the internet-only package.

The aggregate amalgamation will amount $120 a month. The internet-only amalgamation will run $70. A third package, which will action alone internet, but not at the faster acceleration provided by the one-gigabit connection, will accept no account amount for anyone who pays the $300 architecture fee.

A Nexus 7 Tablet will be the alien ascendancy and will appear with every Google Fiber TV amalgamation at no added charge. The Tablet can additionally be acclimated to watch TV throughout your house.