http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-announce-fiber-expansion-in-four-cities-1422322192

Google to Announce Fiber Expansion In Four Cities
Google to Offer Fiber in Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Nashville

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.

Google recently sent invitations to local news organizations in those four cities to attend events this week, without identifying the subject. The Atlanta and Nashville events are scheduled for Tuesday, Raleigh and Charlotte on Wednesday and Durham Thursday, according to local news reports.

A Google spokeswoman declined to comment. Officials in the four areas didn't return requests for comment.

In February 2014, Google said it was considering building Fiber in nine new metro areas. The other cities are Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Phoenix, Portland, Ore. and San Jose, Calif. Google has told some officials in those cities that it hasn't ruled them out, and has yet to make a final decision.

David Vossbrink, a spokesman for the city of San Jose, said a Google Fiber official told him Monday that Google would be announcing expansion cities beginning Tuesday. “The message was that these announcements should not be considered the end of the road for the other areas,” Mr. Vossbrink said.

Google Fiber offers Internet connections at speeds of up to one gigabit per second—roughly 10 times as fast as the average U.S. Internet connection—in Kansas City, Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah.

In Kansas City, where the service first launched in 2012, Google charges $80 a month for the gigabit service and $120 a month for Internet plus a cable-style TV package. A slower version is free after a one-time construction fee.

After announcing plans to enter a city, Google typically takes more than a year to build out its network to reach homes and businesses in the area. The company gauges demand by neighborhood, only building the network in places that express sufficient interest.

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On Wall Street, the project is considered by many investors and analysts as an expensive experiment to try to persuade other broadband Internet providers to upgrade their own networks. But Google executives have said that it is a real business and the company has worked hard to build the service efficiently.

In the Portland area, Oregon tax-assessment rules are delaying a decision by Google to expand its Fiber service there, according to a person familiar with the situation. Oregon assesses utilities using a tax formula that values those companies’ property based on the value of their intangible assets, such as brand. It isn’t clear if this approach would apply to Google, and the state legislature is planning to tackle the issue in coming months. However, it has created uncertainty for the company, the person said.

Write to Alistair Barr at alistair.barr@wsj.com

for the other company that's supposedly doing fiber in the A, I'm digging this.

Hopefully they make it to my part of decatur and not just the city of.

first letter in ATL...shoot..the first two letters...I'm excited by that news too.




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shit. me too.

hahaha.

if I had the opinion that AT&T announced their plans for fiber after Google with no real time table to implement it until they were forced to by Google's implementation? Pretty much to use it as a selling point without an actual plan.

but I haven't really followed it.

...were trying to step up their game in those towns where Google had established themselves. The news that Atlanta was in the running to get GF has been out for a hot minute, so I wouldn't be surprised that AT&T was sitting and waiting to see if Atlanta would be confirmed as one of the new locations.



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unless u can get a dish, which my apartment doesnt allow, it will be good to have more competition

super fast internet will be great as well lol

maybe it's just me but having these kinds of options in a city make it WAY more attractive as a potential residence

Probably ease of digging, newer infrastructure, low population density and no organized labor. I imagine it would be a lot easier to lay a ton of fiber in Raleigh than say, Providence.

but sometimes it can be local municipalities blocking it due to the current providers lobbying against it
i believe *some* of the infrastructure costs are covered by tax payer money so you have that angle involved

start-up or corporate cultures.

sick of Time Warner. i NEED this fiber.

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Raleigh-Durham, NC

Carrboro
Cary
Chapel Hill
Durham
Garner
Morrisville
Raleigh

I'mma be mad as shit if people 1 mile down the road have this and I don't.

Satellite cities that look to have won around Atlanta:
Avondale Estates
Brookhaven
College Park
Decatur
East Point
Hapeville
Sandy Springs
Smyrna


If you're in Clarkston or some shit, be prepared to be salty.

I'm close to Avondale Estates, and Decatur, so maybe I'm in the loop. I can only hope, because Comcast is evil.

you fall in any of these spots?

http://www.decaturga.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=5550

http://www.avondaleestates.org/resources/pdfs/annexation-master-plan-2015-map.pdf

Not salty, just kinda laughing...

I can throw a rock and hit the "Welcome to Brookhaven" sign.

Find it funny that Brookhaven gets it and Buckhead doesnt.




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guess one way to look ay it...if they have their own Mayor, then theyre not considered part of the city?





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the actual city limits will be outlined in purple on the google maps link at the top of the results page, there are also plenty of maps online that show the city limits

but if the mayor of the place ur thinking of is currently kasim reed, then its atlanta. there are cities/towns and unincorporated areas outside of atlanta city limits tho and as said before on here sometimes the area within the city limits looks identical to the area outside of the city limits so it can be confusing, but its usually signage showing when u r leaving or entering Atlanta


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http://phys.org/news/2013-05-google-fiber-good-grades-early.html

I hope it lives up to the hype.

I'm on Time Warner $85 for basic cable and turbo internet.

I'll prolly jump on this but I may wait to see how new customers in our area feel about it before jumping in.

They were working on my street the last week and lest night they were out there until 10PM. I wonder if they started already?

the main complaint has been that there are still a lot of channels they dont get with the cable service, but other than that its been nothing but good news. A benefit of Fiber also is that the local cable companies there (Time Warner, etc.) have been reducing the price of their service to better compete with Google, so thats good to hear too.....



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That's why I'm hating on the darkness like Paula Deen
Cause in my hood they masked up like it's Halloween
We going hard for the Rock, but we not some fiends
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to compete with google.

https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/home/


Working out here with all these north-Fulton/Forsyth Alpharetta, Milton, Roswell, John's Creek-ites who are normally super anti-Atlanta and throwing shade my way for living down there but are kicking their dog today is grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

no, thanks.

Since 1976

I think Atlanta will have it easier than, say, Austin
but that's not guaranteed
Google's been slow rolling this shit out for a reason,
they announced damn near 10 years ago and are only in a few cities

Hmmm, that's a tough one.

corny ass

I actually don't really hate the South. I hate sprawling cities and love mass transit. I'd live in New Orleans (and maybe even Austin).

Google could fiber up the whole eastern half of this country and I still woukd not be interested. At all.

Maybe they're working for Google?


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And all the men and women merely players:
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