Google Fiber Announcement Expected July 26

I sincerely hope its also an announcement to expand into other markets. I live in the 4th largest city in the USA yet we can't get ANY fiber access inside of Houston. As far as I know only Conroe and Texas City have access to fiber (FIOS). There was a small fiber provider years back but they were driven out of business by bureaucratic bs from ATT, Comcast and Verizon.

I understand but that's as close to "fiber" as we have. I had the pleasure of visiting my gf in NorCal and she has Sonic as her provider. I must say it makes me jealous.

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FIOS is so far removed from true muni FTTP or FTTH installs it isn't even funny...

Greedy incumbent Verizon FIOS has contracts, non-symmetrical speeds that don't come close to 1Gbps and no further roll-outs!

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.... Sure smells like a contract with a ETF to me straight.....

YOU discredit much of the positive info you could share.

if we were to attempt to build out the US purely from Muni's the timeline, based on utopia's progress would be in the 20-30 year range, where private solutions, (in particular cable) now reaches a high percentage of homes and with proper incentives could be all D3(or better) within 10 years at (looking at today's speeds) able to serve MOST people with speeds to the 100's of Mbps (Comcast is rumor to be offering 300/?, soon)

So i guess it's a choice between waiting a long time for Muni Gbit, or accept that each solutions helps and seeing most of the US at useful speeds within this decade.

FIOS is so far removed from true muni FTTP or FTTH installs it isn't even funny...

Greedy incumbent Verizon FIOS has contracts, non-symmetrical speeds that don't come close to 1Gbps and no further roll-outs!

Expansion into other markets is not a priority. The purpose of the project is to allow Google's frustrated web application developers the opportunity to try out applications that require symmetrical very high speed internet connections in a community with a relatively large population. Massive simultaneous use, by households and businesses, of multiple applications, including cloud based applications, is to be tested. What happens if the vast majority of a community has affordable access to very high speed symmetrical internet connections without monthly caps? What applications prove useful? What applications are not useful? Are there useful applications that are very valuable, but are only used sporadically, like during election season or certain holidays? Are there extremely valuable applications that are only used during large scale natural or man-made disasters? How do different socioeconomic groups use the service? How does that use impact their lives? How do those impacts effect the community at large?

The goal is to allow for the creation and refinement of applications, not to become a national ISP. They only did this project because too many existing ISPs think the far future means only thinking about what will go into the next annual report, and they had no where in the USA to adequately test their developers ideas. If anything they would only seek to expand outward from the Kansas City area, as rural communities surrounding KC have shown intense interest in creating their own Gigabit networks by connecting to the Kansas City project. Many small cities in Kansas and Missouri apparently have offered to do enormous amounts of preparation work, at their expense, to get a similar project in their community. That would be an interesting addition to the testing environment. What happens when the rural population, in the same general area, has the same internet access speeds and costs as the metropolitan area does?

The goal is to show the ISPs and politicians what is possible if you think about implementing a truly connected nation. It is designed to encourage others to quit thinking of the FCC's 4Mbps adequate internet access speed, as some kind of real progress.

They offer 1000/1000, but they have 100/100 and lower too. It will be wonderful for businesses. Once I get out of college I am making the 30 minute move and buying dat 1000/1000 fiber.

the 100/100 will be $50 and the 1000 will be $100.

Need that connection for what? bragging rights? You WONT use that bandwidth. Those that do, would be businesses, so the high price-tag is warranted.

We have since had subscribers sign up for that gigabit service. But the overwhelming choice for our subscribers is 50/50 Mbps for $35 (note: they pay UTOPIA on average $25/mo for the fiber)

I can only hope the Google 1Gbps fiber launch is on the cheap side and helps to lower the $300/month my ISP currently charges

Considering today's sad announcement here of Cogeco entering the US and using us as their new guinea pigs, Google, Atlantic Broadband territories need you!

21502. Get the zip code right. Help out my friends in 16601, 15901 and 15401 too.

Does anyone know if Google will be providing a router in or with the fiber to Ethernet media converter? Most home and small business routers don't have the processors and RAM to push 1Gbps WAN to LAN throughput. My WRN3500L maxes out around 300Mbps. That is why I am considering a pfSense build or something similar that will give better routing capabilities.

Just wondering what it will take to truly route 1Gbps connections from Google's to your LAN.