City of Decatur “One Step Closer to Google Fiber”

Google just sent around this email blast to folks looking to keep abreast of the City of Decatur’s Google Fiber initiative…

Good news!
The City of Decatur has submitted its fiber-ready checklist, bringing you and your neighbors one step closer to a new, high-speed network and all that comes with faster Internet. This was the first step in seeing if your city is a good fit for Google Fiber.

We’ve been impressed by how enthusiastic the City of Decatur has been as we’ve worked with them over the past few months — so let’s take a moment to thank them for everything they’ve done so far.

Check out this graphic and show support for your city’s hard work.

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Next, our team will continue to work with your city, and use information from the checklist to start planning out what a local fiber network could look like. There are still many details to figure out before we can make a final decision about bringing Google Fiber to Decatur.

We’ll keep you updated on what’s next, but for now, we wanted to share the good news that your city is one step closer to getting Fiber.

Thanks,

The Google Fiber Team

11 thoughts on “City of Decatur “One Step Closer to Google Fiber””


  2. Very prompt. I got the Google email and the announcement of your post popped up a second later.

  4. One of our toddlers (it should be said, the already tech-obsessed one) just started walking around the house with his fingers crossed. Now I know why.

    2. One of my favorites. It’s hilarious that Jim Carrey ad-libbed the “landing on the moon” bit on the spot as the cameras were rolling.

  8. So, what I’d want to know is what proportion of communities initially on the Google Fiber “short list” cleared this first hurdle. Is this a significant step forward, or just pro forma?

    1. I had a similar thought, TOK — similar to the one I had when I received the Publishers Clearing House “Notice of Mandatory Compliance for Imminent Winner Selection” letter yesterday.

      1. Per Decaturish, all cities in this round successfully met this first hurdle.

  10. Any ideas what a normal month bill for this type of service runs? I am guessing since its super fast the bills could make it very expensive to use as 12mb/s runs cost to $60 and its 10 or 20x faster.

  12. I’m slightly less enthused about this since it was announced it would not be available to businesses.

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