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Tag: Google Fiber
GFiber Expands Multi-Gig Home Services to Four More States
UPDATE, May 5: GFiber announced today that it will roll out its multi-gig services to four more states: Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas. This further expands their “lifestyle-based” services, which were made available to Utah and…
Starlink to Acquire Google Fiber in $22B Deal
SpaceX’s satellite broadband service Starlink announced this morning that it would acquire Alphabet’s Google Fiber for $22 billion. The deal is pending review by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Google Fiber will be renamed to…
GFiber Open for Business in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Google Fiber has begun serving businesses in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and will soon offer its GFiber service to residential customers, the company says. The fiber provider, which brands itself as GFiber, is offering two business plans.…
GFiber Expands Multi-Gigabyte Services
GFiber is expanding the availability of rolling a new suite of services after piloting them in Tennessee and Alabama over the past couple of months, the company announced this week. The services are immediately available…
Google Fiber Coming to Texas Town, Starting Construction in Las Vegas
Google Fiber was the subject of two recent announcements, one about a planned network in Texas and the other about network construction starting in Nevada. In the Austin, Texas, area, an online media outlet has…
Lawrence, Kansas Next Google Fiber Expansion Target
Google Fiber said this week that its next expansion will be a network in Lawrence, Kansas, the home of the University of Kansas. Rachel Merlo, Head of Government and Community Affairs for the company’s central…
Google Fiber Successfully Tests Nokia 50G PON in Kansas City
Google Fiber announced Monday that it had successfully tested a 50 Gbps connection on a live network. Employing Nokia’s 50G PON technology, the GFiber Labs team tested the connection on a live network in their…
Google Fiber Reaches Agreement to Create Network in Hyde Park, Utah
Hyde Park is the latest community in Utah to agree to deployment of a Google Fiber network, according to the company. The Herald Journal reported that the Hyde Park City Council approved the agreement during…
Another GFiber North Carolina Market Planned
The coastal city of Wilmington, N.C., has granted approval to Google Fiber to construct a fiber broadband GFiber network. Preparations already are underway on the project. Customer service in the eighth largest city in North…
Google Fiber Gets Aggressive on XGS PON, 25G PON, Advanced Wi-Fi
It’s been over 10 years since Google Fiber first deployed fiber network infrastructure supporting gigabit speeds so perhaps it’s not surprising to hear that the company is aggressively replacing the GPON equipment that it initially…
Google Fiber 2025 Plans Include Las Vegas
Google Fiber is planning to deploy GFiber broadband supporting speeds up to 8 Gbps symmetrically in the city of Las Vegas, according to a company blog post – although it isn’t a done deal yet.…
Google Fiber Offers Updates on GFiber Markets, Including Some Not Announced Before
Blink and it’s easy to miss Google Fiber news. Just this month, the company offered progress reports on multiple GFiber markets, including some that hadn’t been previously announced. On March 11, the company said it…
