As of now, the ISP offers fiber service in 12 metro areas and wireless home Internet in seven.Ī lot of people hoping for faster Internet and more competition were disappointed when Google Fiber "paused" its expansion plans in October 2016. Google Fiber to expand after years of stagnationĪfter years of stagnation, Google Fiber last month said it's aiming to expand its fiber-to-the-home service into five new states.
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"This month, we took our testing out of the lab and into the home, starting with our first trusted tester, Nick Saporito, the Head of Commercial Strategy for GFiber." Jain provided a screenshot from a test at Saporito's home in Kansas City showing 20.2Gbps download speeds: Google Fiber is "closer than you might think" to that goal, Jain wrote. These will be critical milestones on our journey to 100 Gig symmetrical Internet," Jain wrote. "In the coming months, we'll have announcements to dramatically expand our multi-gigabit tiers.
The Alphabet division recently began selling 2Gbps download speeds with 1Gbps uploads for $100, alongside its longstanding offer of symmetrical 1Gbps speeds for $70 a month. "Every major provider in the US seems to have now gotten the gigabit memo, and it's only going up from there-some providers are already offering 2, 5, 8, even 10 Gig products." "We used to get asked, 'who needs a gig?' Today it's no longer a question," Google Fiber CEO Dinni Jain wrote in a blog post yesterday. The company said it will also offer new multi-gigabit tiers in the near future.
Google Fiber is touting a test that delivered 20Gbps download speeds to a house in Kansas City, calling it a milestone on the path to offering 100Gbps symmetrical Internet. Getty Images | Tetra Images reader comments 141 with
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