Google Rivals in Kansas City Want the Same Incentives

To entice Google Inc. to build its ultra-high-speed fiber network there, Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., offered the Internet company sweeteners including several free or discounted city services. Now, Time Warner Cable Inc. and AT&T Inc., the incumbent Internet and TV providers in town, are angling to get the same deal.

Too bad.

If Time Warner or AT&T came out with an ambitious plan to offer residents ultra-fast fiber-to-the-home Internet access–like Google did–they would have gotten the same deals.

But they didn’t.