COLUMBIA - Only about a week remains in Columbia and Boone County's bid to become a testing community for Google's high-speed fiber network.
The mid-Missouri community's chances are technically unknown.
"I don't know how many cities are actually participating. I would expect it to be hundreds, if not thousands," Keith Politte, manager of the technology testing center at the Reynolds Journalism Institute, said.
The only clue Google has given about which and how many communities it will choose for testing grounds is on its Web site. That says it will "offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people" in one or more communities.
"What my sources at Google have told me is that Columbia stands as good a chance, if not better, than most places in the United States," Politte said.
Still, that's nothing definite, as communities across the United States trying to attract Google to their towns grow increasingly aware of Google's approaching March 26 deadline - and amp up their efforts, accordingly.
By proclamation of its mayor, for example, Topeka, Kan. is calling itself Google, Kan. for the entire month of March.
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