Google going over the top? Analyst sees Iowa data center as a video content launchpad.(RULES)

Washington -- Google continues to prep its broadband service test bed in Kansas City, Kan., for what appears to be an over-the-top video delivery service, with one top analyst predicting a filing for a cable-TV license there "very soon."

Two weeks ago, the Internet-search giant's Google Fiber amended its application related to Ku-band fixed-earth stations in Council Bluffs, Iowa, with its stated goal to provide "analog and digital audio, data and video services."

Pointing to a series of regulatory filings over the past 12 weeks, Sanford Bernstein cable and satellite analyst Craig Moffett suggested it was a near certainty that Google would be getting into the pay TV …