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Google Fiber Expands TV, Internet to Austin, Texas - ABC News
By Daniel Bean
Apr 9, 2013 4:39pm
Google announced Tuesday that they’re bringing Google Fiber, the company’s gigabit Internet service and digital cable television package, to Austin, Texas, the second city to get the high-speed infrastructure.
Although Austin was one of over 1,100 cities that showed interest in being the first launching spot for Google’s 1,000 Mb per second Internet service, Kansas City, Mo., was chosen and started seeing build-out last year.
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Lo said that the service offerings in Austin will be the same as those currently rolling out in Kansas City. The only variation may be in television programming, of which Google Fiber TV currently provides nearly 200 HD TV channels. Lo gave the example of the University of Texas’s Longhorn Network, a channel not currently provided in Kansas City, but will be offered in Austin.
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The model of service expansion throughout Austin, neighborhood by neighborhood (Google wants to turn them into “fiberhoodsâ€), will also be the same as Kansas City’s. Google says that, starting in 2014, they will begin asking neighborhoods that want Fiber to register, and then will build where there is the most interest.
By Daniel Bean
Apr 9, 2013 4:39pm
Google announced Tuesday that they’re bringing Google Fiber, the company’s gigabit Internet service and digital cable television package, to Austin, Texas, the second city to get the high-speed infrastructure.
Although Austin was one of over 1,100 cities that showed interest in being the first launching spot for Google’s 1,000 Mb per second Internet service, Kansas City, Mo., was chosen and started seeing build-out last year.
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Lo said that the service offerings in Austin will be the same as those currently rolling out in Kansas City. The only variation may be in television programming, of which Google Fiber TV currently provides nearly 200 HD TV channels. Lo gave the example of the University of Texas’s Longhorn Network, a channel not currently provided in Kansas City, but will be offered in Austin.
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The model of service expansion throughout Austin, neighborhood by neighborhood (Google wants to turn them into “fiberhoodsâ€), will also be the same as Kansas City’s. Google says that, starting in 2014, they will begin asking neighborhoods that want Fiber to register, and then will build where there is the most interest.
