Google picking skilled in Austin on Tuesday, the next city, the search giant will work with the ultra-fast Internet connection wiring their homes, but did not say how many customers will pay or fiber experiments may be expanded elsewhere in the United States
Austin and Kansas City is the only place where Google's fiber optic broadband service - 100 times faster than competing products and alternative to cable or satellite TV provider.
The introduction of an expensive undertaking and Gambling Google, you must first establish the expensive new broadband pipeline can handle Gigabit speed. Google hopes that the launch will drive innovation and pressure, telephone and cable companies to improve their network, because the benefits of Google, when people spend more time online.
Google period beginning in 2014 is expected to to accept Google fiber Austin homes.
They are equipped with gigabit network will allow them to establish a variety of new applications and services, which will help the story on the Internet, writing a new chapter, who is responsible for the Google fiber access services, Google's vice president, said: "meters Los MEDIN.
Austin residents will pay is unclear. Medlin said the price may be "about" similar to Google fee in Kansas City, customers pay $ 70 a month Gigabit connection. $ 50, customers can also receive cable TV service lineup with, such as ESPN, FOX News, Nickelodeon and MTV pillar provides a channel.
Some popular channels are still unable to Google fiber, including HBO and AMC.
MEDIN would not say that Google may announce another city to receive the sought-after network. Google said that more than 1,100 cities and applications starting in 2010, some of the gimmicks or elaborate video, the limelight even overshadowed the competition hope. Topeka even informally changed its name to "Google, Kansas."
Kansas City liquidation popular Google Subscribe residents last year. Google is expected, will be completed by the end of 2013, 180 blocks were selected based on the needs of service.
Fee of $ 70 in Kansas City more than what cable or phone company charge a basic Internet service, but the service is very fast. Gigabit speed, or 1000 megabits per second, are generally not available from other companies. The only exception is the city's state-owned power company in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which has pulled its own fiber-optic Gigabit service and sales of 350 yuan per month.
However, it is expensive to pull fiber compared to using existing telephone lines and cable lines to provide Internet services. Verizon Communications Inc. is a major telecommunications company in the United States homes have a direct connection fiber. Some Wall Street analysts estimate that the project, which cost $ 23 billion, is not paid off.
Kansas City residents with Google signed a slower, standard Internet connection, no monthly fees of $ 300 one-time costs. Medlin said Austin homeowners will be provided free standard broadband.
Google announced the news in a stylish and fashionable urban warehouse building, a huge video board "Hello, Goodbye Austin, loading greeting guests at the bar."
Gigabit customers are unlikely to notice the basic activities, such as surfing the Internet or e-mail substantive difference. The higher speed is the most desirable Add to create an online backup and play the video, no buffering - Google called "instantaneous Internet."
Google did not disclose how much the company spent to build a gigabit network. (Bernstein Research) analyst at Bernstein Research in a report this week costs $ 8.4 billion U.S. dollars, 149,000 households in Kansas City by Google.
The report's authors suspect that Google Fiber will be extended to the majority of the U.S. financial awareness
"In a final effort to track global business," Bernstein's report concluded.
 



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