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Google’s Super-Fast Fiber Internet With WiFi 7 Is Also Super Expensive

The 20 Gbps, WiFi 7-enabled service will require a big router setup for the sake of multi-gig speeds across all your home’s devices for $250 a month.

Google Fiber Will Pay $3.8 Million to Fix Roads Marred by Failed Louisville Project

Google Fiber has announced that it will pay $3.84 million to the local government in Louisville, Kentucky to fix infrastructure in the city after the tech giant decided to pull out of that market. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, decided to abandon its gigabit broadband plans in Louisville back in February after its plans for “nanotrenching,”…

College Bribery, DoorDash Pay, and Captain Marvel: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

The tech world found itself embroiled in another appalling controversy when a white supremacist gunman entered two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15 and opened fire, killing at least 50 people and wounding scores of others in an attack apparently calculated for maximum effect on social media and live-streamed on Facebook. While tech…

When Google Fiber Abandons Your City as a Failed Experiment

There’s a glob of stringy, black rubber spilling out of the street at the corner of Speed and Fernwood in Louisville’s Highlands neighborhood. A block away on Rosedale, the same spongy substance that covers most of Google Fiber’s buried lines in the city snakes in and out of the asphalt. Google Fiber, Alphabet’s gigabit broadband…

These Are the States With the Fastest and Slowest Internet

A report on internet speeds across the country released on Wednesday shows which cities and states have the slowest and fastest broadband—and which providers are the fastest. Internet testing company Ookla says it measured internet speeds from more than 24 million unique users while making the report of fixed broadband speeds for the second and…

FCC Almost Does Something Right, and It May Give Google Fiber a Boost

There is plenty of reason to be skeptical when this FCC decides to do anything that isn’t a gift to the biggest telecoms in the nation. But on Thursday, it created new rules that could help upstarts like Google Fiber break into wireless and broadband markets. It’s a rare instance in which less regulation might…

Area Man, Obscure Sidekick Asked to Leave Google Fiber’s Austin Office by the Police

Conspiracy kingpin and Infowars huckster Alex Jones tried to “storm” the Google Fiber offices in Austin on Monday, which essentially entailed entering the building and babbling about a “big AI supermachine” before being asked to leave by Google Fiber staff and the police. Jones is well-known in the city as a sort of regional nuisance…

What Happened to Google Fiber?

For a long time, Google Fiber was the most exciting broadband provider out there. Cities wanted it, tech people drooled over it; and on a loftier level, it even promised to help bridge the “digital divide” between rich and poor. But now, things are looking bleak: Yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Google Fiber is being scaled…

Google Fiber No Longer Coming to a City Near You

Google announced Tuesday that it is “pausing” its Fiber operations in ten cities. Google Fiber will remain in cities that Google has already laid the infrastructure for, but Alphabet is putting a halt on future development. Google will also be laying off 9% of its Fiber team, according to Ars Technica. The CEO of Google…

Google Fiber Got Kicked in the Nuts by Alphabet

Not everything Google touches turns to gold—just ask Robert Scoble—and Google Fiber, it seems, is in the midst of joining those not-so-illustrious ranks. According to a new report from the Information, Alphabet CEO Larry Page recently passed down some strong recommendations to Google Fiber leader Craig Barratt: slash his staff numbers in half and drastically…

Google Fiber Is Killing Its Free Internet in Kansas City

When Google Fiber first popped up in Kansas City, it was the $70-a-month gigabit internet package that grabbed headlines, not the 5Mbps tier that Fiber also offered for free. Hopefully, anyone who wanted free internet got on board, because Google is now discontinuing the program. Recode first noticed the changes: if you’re a new customer…

Google Wants to Make Landlines Relevant Again with Its New Fiber Phone

If you’re living with high-speed internet in one of Google’s Fiber cities, your landline telephone might yet live to see another day. Today, Google announced Fiber Phone, a cloud-based phone number you can use from any tablet, laptop, or phone—including a landline. It’s like Google Voice on bad steroids. The proposition is fairly straightforward. You…

All the Fucked Up Things Comcast Is Doing to Compete With Google Fiber

Comcast is notorious for being a bunch of raging dickholes that we’d like cleave from our lives. But the company is also, you know, the largest internet service provider in the United States, one that has strong stranglehold on a big chunk of us and that loves to cap the crap out of the one…

Google Fiber Is Coming to Parts of San Francisco

Google’s ongoing quest to supply gigabit internet to American cities will finally reach San Francisco. The company announced today that it will use the tech capital’s existing fiber infrastructure to supply mega-fast internet to “some apartments, condos, and affordable housing properties.” San Francisco is the twenty-second metropolitan area Google has roped into its fiber web.…

Google Rolls Out Free Gigabit Ethernet To Public Housing Locations

High-speed internet is improvingacross the US, but not everyone is experiencing the same level of improvement. Google wants to help solve that problem, albeit in a highly limited fashion. The search giant announced last year it will provide free gigabit ethernet to public housing connected with Google Fiber. Residents of these buildings will automatically gain…

L.A. and Chicago Are Up Next for Google Fiber

Just a day after AT&T announced that it’s bringing gigabit fiber internet to the L.A. metro area, Google has announced that it’s exploring L.A. and Chicago as the next possible locations for the expansion of its Fiber network. Google Fiber is currently available in some form or another in 18 metro areas, although only Salt…

AT&T Is Rolling Out Gigabit Fiber to 38 New Cities

AT&T has been offering gigabit-speed fiber internet since 2013, but unless you got very lucky with the internet genie, you probably haven’t been in the service area. Starting today, 38 cities will have the chance to download their Steam games really quite fast. The pilot version started in Austin two years ago, and is currently…

Google Fiber plans to explore expansion possibilitiesin three new cities: San Diego, Louisville, and Irvine. This just means that Google Fiber is working with folks in those respective city halls, so it’s not certain that they’ll get gigabit internet. Butany extra internet help is great! Contact the author at [email protected]. Public PGP key PGP fingerprint:…

Obama Has a Plan to End America’s Internet Access Inequality Problem

“Today, high speed broadband is not a luxury, it’s a necessity,” President Obama said earlier this year. Yet home internet access is still an extravagance out of reach for many Americans. Today, the White House announced a program designed to change that. Less than half of the poorest households in the US have home internet…

Pro/Con: Why Google’s Fi Could Be Awesome and Terrible

Today, Google announced its very own wireless network. Just $20 a month for unlimited call and texts, plus $10 per gigabyte of data. No contracts or termination fees. Google will even refund your unused megabytes. Sounds awesome. So what’s the catch already? The catch is that if Google becomes a cell carrier, it’ll wield more…