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Google Fiber chooses nine metro areas for possible expansion
Google Fiber is ready to expand, as Google has identified nine metro areas scattered around the country as possible sites of deployment, the company said. "We’ve invited 34 cities in nine metro areas across the US to work with us to explore what it would take to build a new fiber-optic network in their community," Google said in an announcement today. "Many of these cities asked for Google Fiber in 2010 and have since continued to try to bring better Internet access to their residents."
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As a New Yorker, it saddens me to know how long I'll have to wait for Fiber to happen here.
Floridian here. The wait is terrible, if it ever comes.
Like the first article comment says, it is quite sad that people all over America are so unhappy with their current internet service providers. The best part is that when Google comes to these cities, the other ISPs are forced to provide better internet.
Massachusettsian(?), sometimes I wonder if by the time Google Fiber comes here it'll be just like every other cable company. Hopefully not.
Mainer chiming in. We'll get it by 2040. Maybe.