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Bosonic

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Tue Apr 9, 2013, 03:25 PM Apr 2013

Austin next city for ultra-fast Google Fiber

Source: AP

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Google Inc. picked tech-savvy Austin on Tuesday as the next city where the search giant will wire homes with ultra-fast Internet connections, but did not say how much customers will pay or when the fiber-optic experiment might expand elsewhere in the U.S.

Austin and Kansas City are the only places to get Google Fiber — a broadband service 100 times faster than the competition and an alternative to cable or satellite TV providers.

The rollout is an expensive undertaking and gamble for Google, which must first build costly new broadband pipelines that can handle "gigabit" speeds. Google hopes the rollout will drive innovation and pressure phone and cable companies to improve its networks, since Google benefits when people spend more time online.

Google expects Austin homes to begin receiving Google Fiber in mid-2014.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/austin-expected-be-next-stop-google-fiber



Good news, bad news for Austin.

Super-fast broadband, but scheduled for North Korean nuclear annihilation maybe as early as tomorrow.
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Austin next city for ultra-fast Google Fiber (Original Post) Bosonic Apr 2013 OP
Dang hipsters gettign ti before the rest of us ;) pam4water Apr 2013 #1
Austin will be third city with gig access d_r Apr 2013 #2
The hipsters will bemoan the technology as 'over' before it hits the city... nt Earth_First Apr 2013 #3
They wouldn't even think of using it anyway sir pball Apr 2013 #4
Damn, I thought Google had invented a fast-acting laxative Duer 157099 Apr 2013 #5
What did Texas do to deserve this before the rest of us?? Blue_Tires Apr 2013 #6
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