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On Thursday, Google launched Google Fiber to select households in Kansas City, KS and Kansas City, MO. Google Fiber is "a different kind of internet," but is it everything it claims to be?

free Google Fiber's new base plan, which offers (after an initial $300 installation fee) its users free broadband access at traditional speeds for the next seven years.

fast Google's Gigabit ethernet, which offers speeds at 100 times faster than traditional internet access for a relatively-inexpensive $70 per month.

different Google's fully-integrated HD television plan, which includes cable TV, a Google Drive, and a Nexus 7 tablet. That bells-and-whistles deal? $120 per month. source

» But before you move to Kansas City … It's worth noting that there are a few notable holdouts on the cable front — for example, there isn't any AMC, CNN, the Disney Channel, HBO or ESPN, so "Game of Thrones" is off the table in the Google household. But on the other hand, if you download an episode of said show on The Pirate Bay at gigabit speeds, it'd take you less than five seconds. Seems like some major companies didn't think this through …