Google has decided to expand its fiber broadband service after a five-year gap in the program.
The Big Tech company announced Wednesday that it is expanding fiber access in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, and Idaho over the next few years. Google Fiber promised gigabit download speeds before its competitors and is considered one of the fastest options on the market.
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“These states will be the main focus for our growth for the next several years, along with continued expansion in our current metro areas,” Google Fiber CEO Dinni Jain said in a blog post.
The organization announced plans to expand its gigabit fiber speeds to the cities of Mesa, Arizona, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. Mesa approved the application in July, making it the first city in Arizona to access the high-speed internet option.
While the company has not added any new locations since putting all expansion attempts on hold in 2016, Jain emphasized that the Fiber team has been busy. “For the past several years, we’ve been even busier behind the scenes, focusing on our vision of providing the best possible gigabit internet service to our customers through relentless refinements to our service delivery and products,” he said. He also expressed an interest in talking with other communities to help them build fiber networks.
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Google Fiber was announced in 2010 and had its services installed in Palo Alto for initial tests before expanding to Kansas City, Missouri, in 2011. The service is available in nine locations across the United States, including Austin, Charlotte, Atlanta, Nashville, and Stanford University.
2.8 million Americans currently use Google Fiber, according to broadband networks.
