Google Fiber will be expanding to Austin, Texas in 2014. Austin city officials and Google announced the expansion of Fiber, a service that is already live in the Kansas City area that provides users with Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, which Google says is about 100 times faster than most American users’ Internet speeds.
“With a population of innovators and early adopters, Austin has always welcomed and embraced forward-thinking ideas,” said the Austin Chamber of Commerce said Tuesday in a statement. “Google Fiber’s expanded access to ultra high-speed networks will support Austin’s ‘quality of place’ and will be a great resource for our students, entrepreneurs and businesses.”
Google indicates that it will connect many public institutions for free, including schools, hospitals and community centers. “[Austin is] a mecca for creativity and entrepreneurialism, with thriving artistic and tech communities, as well as the University of Texas and its new medical research hospital,” Google said. “We’re sure these folks will do amazing things with gigabit access, and we feel very privileged to have been welcomed to their community.”
Source: LA Times
