Google Fiber apologized for the video outage in Kansas City, where the hometown Royals hosted the New York Mets during baseball’s championship series.
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“We know it couldn’t have happened at a worse time”, a verified, four-year-old Twitter account named “Google Fiber” wrote in a post on Tuesday night. Its TV and Internet services went down completely in the Kansas City Metro area just as the game was being televised. “All service was restored by 10:15pm local time”. That problem, which was blamed on a video truck that lost power, has now been fixed, and apparently was not related to the Google Fiber outage. We’re working hard to make sure our customers can enjoy the rest of Game 1 and we’ll provide more details as soon as we can.
Credit Google Fiber with an error at a key moment.
Google came to Kansas City in 2012 as part of the company’s effort to offer internet with download speeds as fast as 1 GB per second with television service.
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Google Fiber went down right before Fox’s primetime broadcast feed suffered a disruption of its own due to “a rare electronics failure”, Fox Sports said in a statement. Over 20 minutes later, Fox was able to restore its full broadcast. The game marked the longest World Series opener in Major League Baseball history.
