Google Fiber Pondering 9 New Metro Areas

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @08:23AM from the making-the-northeast-weep dept.

New submitter GreyWanderingRogue writes "Google is looking to expand beyond the three current cities using Google Fiber. They're currently still in the discussion stages, but they've invited 34 cities in 9 major metropolitan areas to talk about deployment. They'll need to study 'topography (e.g. hills, flood zones), housing density, and the condition of local infrastructure' in each of the cities, so it will be interesting to see how many make it to completion. Check the map to see if you're one of the lucky few. The Atlanta, Portland and Raleigh-Durham areas each have a cluster of cities being considered. Not in one of these cities? It might be a while yet..."

3 of 172 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Note to end of story... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-19 08:28 · Score: 5, Informative

Google bought the tax payer funded network in Provo, Utah for $1.
http://transmission.xmission.com/2014/02/19/google-fiber-in-salt-lake-city
Phoenix AZ Google Fiber by megalon · 2014-02-19 08:36 · Score: 5, Insightful

Why not run fiber in the entire valley instead of just Scottsdale and Tempe? The north and west sides of Phoenix has a lot of families that could use 1 Gbs or 10 Gbs Internet.
atl/ga corruption by Anonymous Coward · 2014-02-19 08:37 · Score: 5, Interesting

coworkers & I were just talking about need to proactively appoint an independent prosecutor w/expedited subpoena/investigative power to find/expose and financial ties between comcast/at&t and any politicians who will inevitably try to block/obstruct this!