Google Fiber Has Arrived in Two More Cities

Google Fiber net work is present disposable successful 2 much cities successful the U.S. authorities of South Carolina, Tega Cay and Fort Mill, with speeds of up to 8 Gigs disposable to residents. It’s large to spot Google’s ultra-fast gigabit net work inactive pushing into caller areas, but the rollouts are inactive facing agelong delays.

The rollout successful Tega Cay was announced successful October 2023, and was the archetypal confirmed country successful South Carolina for Google Fiber. The Fort Mill Town Council approved Google Fiber’s operation and deployment in May 2024. Tega Cay has a colonisation implicit 12,000, and Fort Mill has astir 24,000 residents. Both cities are suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina, which was one of the archetypal areas successful the United States with Google Fiber service. It took a portion to yet spell live, but amended precocious than never.

Pricing for Google Fiber is identical successful each areas, though immoderate faster options aren’t rolled retired everywhere. The 1 Gigabit work is $70/month, 3 Gig is $100/month, and 8 Gig is $150/month. All 3 options look to beryllium unrecorded successful the caller cities.

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Google Fiber said successful a blog post, “With speeds up to 8 Gigs — whether you’re streaming your favourite shows, moving from home, gaming online, oregon each of the above, our fast, dependable manner net products are disposable to support up with your beingness — GFiber tin support up and past some. As always, each products travel with each the instrumentality you request and nary information caps oregon yearly contracts. […] If we’re not astatine your code conscionable yet, we’ll support you posted arsenic we proceed to grow our network.”

The process for gathering retired Google Fiber infrastructure involves gathering ‘aggregation sites’ (or a ‘point of presence’) successful a section area, past gathering a ringing of fibre cables that encircle a fixed metropolis for branching work into immoderate neighborhood. The branches yet link to a ‘fiber hut’ switchboard, past moving much fibre cables to an LCP furniture successful a neighborhood, past mounting up the last cables to homes. Those fiber-optic cables tin beryllium either underground oregon attached to inferior poles, and digging lines for fibre cables is astir ever required for the last transportation to homes.

Building each that infrastructure takes a agelong time, particularly the measurement of digging for underground connections. Google has also faced ineligible attacks from existing net work providers successful respective areas, due to the fact that they really don’t similar caller competition. In areas wherever fibre lines can’t scope each the mode to customers, Google Fiber uses wireless deployments known arsenic Google Fiber Webpass, similar a much specialized mentation of 5G location internet.

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Source: Google Fiber