{"id":12089,"date":"2022-08-11T14:43:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/11\/google-fiber-isnt-dead-its-expanding\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T14:43:22","slug":"google-fiber-isnt-dead-its-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/11\/google-fiber-isnt-dead-its-expanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Fiber isn\u2019t dead, it\u2019s expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/11\/23301208\/google-fiber-expansion-plans-five-states-arizona-colorado-nebraska-nevada-idaho<\/a>
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Google Fiber, the Alphabet division focused on offering high-speed internet access in the US, has ambitious plans to expand its fiber services in the next three to five years, the company announced in a blog post<\/a>. It wants to launch fiber services in five new states, which include previously announced plans to enter Arizona<\/a> and Colorado<\/a>, as well as Nebraska, Nevada, and Idaho. In total, Reuters<\/em> reports<\/a> that Google Fiber hopes to expand to 22 metro areas, from 17 today. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a big turnaround from 2016, when the business reportedly layed off 9 percent of its workforce<\/a> and paused plans to launch services in over half a dozen cities. In subsequent years, reports emerged that the company was canceling hundreds of installations in existing metro areas like Kansas City<\/a>, and left Louisville, Kentucky entirely<\/a> after an ill-fated experiment with laying fiber cabling in ultra-shallow trenches<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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