Community leaders in some areas are pushing residents to pre-register, in the hopes of ensuring that Google Fiber is made available to their neighborhood's public buildings. The deadline for the all-important pre-registrations is Sept. 9.

Google gave the public service aspects of its fiber project high billing during its initial , but the absence of the technology in less wealthy areas could undermine that altruistic image.

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in Network World's LAN & WAN section.