Time Warner's Kansas City customers getting a way better deal than Lincolnites; reason: company so terrified by spread of Google's ultra-fast Internet service that it desperately lowered prices

A Google Fiber crew gets ready to hang fiber cables
from a Kansas City utility pole.

Google's 1,000-Mbps service (no, that wasn't a typo) isn't even that cheap — $70 per month. But upload speeds are just as fast as download speeds and there are no caps on bandwidth — something America's most-hated cable/Internet Service Provider, Comcast, would surely choke on.
     One more thing: Google offers a free (for at least seven years, after a $300 "construction" fee) service that is 5 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload. And that includes a box with Wi-Fi and 4 gigabit ethernet ports that you don't have to rent. (Century Link's worst nightmare, we're sure.)
     Too bad Omaha missed out on becoming a Google City.
     Anyway, here's what happened when Time Warner (and Sprint) were driven to the depths of pricing despair by real ISP competition, as opposed to whatever you might call what exists in Lincoln (or Omaha.)

     Tangentially related: the Everything's Up To Date In Kansas City number from the 1955 film version of Oklahoma. The superlatively cerebral choreography of Agnes de Mille starts at about the 2:24 mark. Yes, Agnes was related to famed director Cecil B. de Mille — she was his niece.