Google Offers Fiber to 34 More Cities

Google learned a lot from their fiber projects in Kansas City,Provo and Austin.

Now they're inviting 34 more cities in 9 metro areas

The 9 metro areas offered fiber are Portland, OR; San Jose, CA; Salt Lake City, UT; Phoenix, AZ; San Antonio, TX; Nashville, TN; Atlanta, GA; and Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, NC.

Google Fiber Blog

 

D: Damn I live like 5 minutes from San Jose

 

San Jose is pretty big. Wonder if fiber will come to my neighborhood. I'd jump on it in a heartbeat if the price is right. So damn sick of Comcast and AT&T is even worse.

 

I live in Cupertino, so wonder if Apple will have anything to say about it if it ever reaches here.

 

Don't get too excited yet - while these cities are next in queue, Google hasn't said they're definitely getting it. It's still subject to such things as cooperative governments and acceptable ground conditions. Overland Park, Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City) has already missed out, at least for the near future, due to waffling over the contract. That said, my guess is at least the majority of these metro areas will get service at some point.

What I'd like to know is how I get my city on the list. Or someone else's gigabit list, for that matter. I'm no fan of Time Warner, and AT&T isn't any better. And they're both probably better than the two previous providers I had.

 

You guys who have choice shouldn't be complaining, over here we don't even have choice for anything faster than 15mbps.

 

I would bet against Cupertino getting google fiber. Probably one reason would be because of Apple's politicking like you mentioned, but mainly because of the logistics.

I was recently as my uncle's house & the only internet/tv service offered to his neighborhood was at&t tv & dsl. Not even comcast. I believe the physical geography, terrain, & landscape was the reason he explained to me why comcast couldn't provide service to all parts of Cupertino. Similarly, google fiber costed millions if not billions for google to install in Kansas city, provo, & austin into the street pavement & google would experience the same kind of difficulties that comcast experienced in regards to installing the service in hilly cupertino. I mean, if google truly wanted to spend the excess money to install it in cupertino it fiscally can do it, but San Jose is the most viable just in terms of straight physical logistics. However, I could also see google choosing "Select neigborhoods within their chosen parts of silicon valley". Additionally, city politics & traffic are other obstacles & issues that I have read that have hindered google fiber in the recent past.

Ironically all my family were pointing out we were wrapped around the enigma that we were 1 mile away from the the tech capital of the world & my uncle's neighborhood could only get spotty dsl service.

 

Yea, my family only switched off Att dsl half a year ago. Comcast services our area so at least we can get cheaper prices by pitting these two companies against each other every 2 years when renewing.

 

Lucky for those of you who live there, hopefully they follow through with it.

 

When this was mentioned on the local (Salt Lake City, UT) television news a few weeks back, they were stating that the offer was to Salt Lake City only, and not to any other cities in the metro area. Hopefully that will turn out to be incorrect -- because I'm in one of the more populous of the suburbs!

 

Google Fiber in Austin Texas has caused Time Warner to up it's speeds by up to 6X without raising prices.

Competition is soooooooooo good for consumers.

Aha! Time Warner Cable ups Austin broadband speeds as Google Fiber looms | PCWorld

 

Upping the speeds isn't terribly useful unless they also raise the monthly transfer limits.

 

You mean everyone doesn't have unlimited?

 

You mean anyone in the USA does have unlimited? Maybe someday we won't have to worry about using up our 250 - 300 GB monthly allotment just by streaming a movie or two each day.

 

Feel you on that. I've been dealing with 0.95/1.15 Mbps download. Glad to be one of the lucky here in salt lake city.

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I have unlimited internet from Comcast. When I click on the "My Service" tab in my account page it says: Note: Enforcement of the 250GB data consumption threshold is currently suspended.

 

I've been living/working in Korea a number of years with terrific unlimited 100Mbps Up & Down Internet,Cable TV and Internet phone for about $30 per month.

I won't miss the 130% tax on beer.

This summer I'll be returning stateside with plans to reside in the Austin TX area.

I fear my Internet habits will need to change

 

That's nice... for now. But if they're not selling it as unlimited (and maybe even if they are) then they can -- and probably will -- re-enable the caps at any time and without warning. And Comcast has more incentive to do that than Google, Centurylink, or other non-CATV providers. They don't want people switching to Internet-based TV services.

 

On Thursday, Redditor psdtwk posted a map with the locations of Google's permits currently on file with the City of Austin. With all construction currently occurring south of Lady Bird Lake, it seems the tech giant is favoring South Austin neighborhoods, leaving our downtown tech hub — not to mention the University of Texas at Austin

Checking in with Google Fiber: Where will the first "fiberhoods" be? - CultureMap Austin

 

Awesome paint job.

 

i currently work for a comcast business contractor in the south bay, one of googles next cities for fiber. ( and where google is headquartered in fact i live like half a mile from googleplex)

my question to you is who installs the fiber? google cant possibly hire enough in house google employees in 42 cities to roll this stuff out they must be hiring contractors.

i look at googles hiring page a lot and i never see fiber optic tech coming up yet theyre going to be putting fiber optic in san jose which is a really big city.....

 

btw 300 mbps is the theoretical maximum the docsis 3.0 service can reach. time warner did not want to update all of its area like comcast has ( the xfinity name brand) from docsis 2.0 with a downstream cap of 50 mbps..... in fact theyve wanted to sell their business for 2 years first to charter now to comcast.

for the austin market, they can give the 300 away right now. in fact they dont care they want to sell their whole business anyway. but thats it thats the end of the technology investment.

right now in san jose comcast is just unveiling the 150mbs down service.

I could give you the more brass tacks if anyone is interested. rest assured, google and comcast are not competing they have this whole thing cooked up as a conspiracy trust me. comcast has plenty of fiber and infrastructure. they want the consumer to get used to paying 70$ first.
its all in the spreadsheet.