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GFiber roll-out is largely gated on the local municipalities. It takes years to cut through the bureaucratic red-tape of getting a right-of-way to run fiber to the home, and in many cases, the utility poles they use are owned by their competitors. The reason they started with Kansas City was because it features an integrated city, county, and utility government, and so they could negotiate with one entity and get all the permits necessary without having to go between dozens of competing interests. Same reason it will never come to San Francisco; CEQA means that any single property-owner along the fiber route can block the whole project, and there are a number of homeowners in San Francisco who don't exactly like Google.

My fiancee's taking a land-development course, detailing all of the things you have to go through to bring water, electricity, sewage, Internet to a new area, all the utilities we take for granted. The professor is a guy who spent pretty much his entire career, 16 years, doing one deal (from which he personally netted tens of millions in profit). That should give you an idea of the timescale that public utilities operate on.