With Google's intensive six-week registration drive for the Google Fiber project in Kansas City coming to an end on Sunday, the Internet search giant has reported that as many as 180 out of a possible 202 Kansas City districts have signed up for its gigabit broadband project.

Declaring success for the registration drive for its 1Gb/s fiber network project, Google said that, for qualifying for the project sign-up, the cities were divided into zones or "Fiberhoods." Google has committed to the wiring up of the schools, libraries, and community buildings of the "Fiberhoods" and becoming an ISP, if a good enough number of people signed up for its gigabit broadband and paid a deposit of $10.

So far as the charges of the gigabit broadband are concerned, an array of packages can be selected from by residential customers; with a $70-per-month package including a symmetric 1Gb/s by wire, and a 802.11a/b/g/n router for 360Mbps of wireless; 1TB of cloud storage; and an IP4/6 firewall.

In addition, customers will also be able to subscribe to a $120-per-month option for availing the digital TV package with a Nexus tablet; with standouts allowed to select a free 5Mbps download and 1Mbps upload "regular" broadband for a seven-year period, at a $300 construction cost.

Meanwhile, noting that the response to its registration drive for the gigabit broadband was quite overwhelming, Kevin Lo - general manager of Google Access - said the number of processed sign ups for the project has already "blown us away."