Here’s your likely answer to what will be announced at Google’s press conference tomorrow.
The Wall Street Journal reports this evening that Atlanta, Charlottle N.C., Raleigh-Durham N.C. and Nashville, TN are all getting ultra-high-speed Google Fiber internet.
Google Inc. is preparing to offer its high-speed fiber-optic Internet service in four new metro areas, the latest step in a careful expansion of the service.
Google will announce launches of Google Fiber in Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Raleigh-Durham, N.C. and Nashville, Tenn. in coming days, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Click over to WSJ for a bit more in the article. Google Fiber is already located in Kansas City, Austin and Provo, Utah.
In potentially related news, the Atlanta Business Chronicle reported today that Google – in addition to Twitter – are looking at offices at Ponce City Market.
it rocketh
Does that include us?
The city has no comment, which I would interpret as a good sign.
I wonder if it will be announced tonight at the “State of the City” address?
Does anyone know how much their service costs per month etc?
Here are the pricing plans in KC. https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/
And Austin. https://fiber.google.com/cities/austin/plans/#plan=free
Note the free internet option (up to 5 mbps) for 7 years when you pay the $300 installation fee.
Looks like a done deal:
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs2/view/14348109
Anyone know the approximate timeline when we’ll actually be able to sign up?
I’m chomping at the bit to fire comcast.
Slight threadjack: Curious about your experience w/ Comcast. Do you have gripes about the quality of the connection? Billing? Customer service? I live in a condo that is doing away with the building-wide WiFi (which hasn’t been that reliable anyway). Individual units will be responsible for their own Internet connectivity. Our options seem to be Uverse and Comcast. (DirecTV is included in monthly condo fee, so not necessarily looking for bundles.)
As someone else who has Comcast (and can’t wait to fire them), I have gripes about connection quality (drops regularly during peak hours), billing (personal favorite was being sent a bill for old equipment I’d already returned, and then being told I would have to prove I returned it to them), and general customer service (multiple 4+ hour calls among multiple agents, who usually transfer you out-of-market (Maine is a particular favorite) rather than help). Can’t come soon enough.
I live in the ice house lofts and recently fired att and hired comcast. So far they are the exact opposites, att always gave me good quick customer service and crappy internet that never came close to the speed I was paying for. Comcast doesn’t seem to know what its left hand is doing vs its right, but, my internet is not only now four times faster its also slightly faster than the plan I pay for. I can live with bad customer service as long as my speeds are good.
I’ve had a similar experience. Comcast, when it works, is superior to ATT. But I had more problems with outages with Comcast, which makes their bad customer service even more of an issue.