Google has been in talks with nine cities in the United States over “what it would take” to implement Google Fiber in their areas. Google Fiber, which offers connection speeds of 1 GB per second, announced this in a bl...
The average internet speed currently sits at around 10Mbps. Google Fiber, which has only rolled out to a handful locations is world’s better at 1Gbps. But according to report from USA Today, Google doesn’t want to stop...
Google wants to build a fiber network in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, they have run into a road block. AT&T owns about 20 percent of the utility (electricity) poles in Austin and AT&T is saying that Google can’t attach Go...
According to a research paper published in Nature Photonics, researchers at Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs have found a new way to transmit data super-fast over fiber cables. This new method is using “twin waves” of ...
Google has announced that “the Shawnee City Council voted to bring Google Fiber to their city.” If only we could all just vote to get Google Fiber installed in our cities. Shawnee is located southwest of Kansas City, a...
Very interesting infographic compares the speed and price of Google Fiber to other broadband ISPs in USA and UK.
Google and Provo officials have announced that Provo, Utah will be the third city to get the ultra-fast Google Fiber internet service. This follows the recent announcement of the second city to get gigabit internet from Google, Au...
Forget Google Fiber! Japanese internet-provider So-net, which is backed by Son, has just begun offering what might be the best deal on internet plans ever. The Sony-owned company is now providing subscribers with 2Gbps download sp...
You don’t want the super fast Internet speeds that services like Google Fiber can provide. Nope. You don’t really need that sort of thing. Only business customers do, for their business applications in their businesses...
If you’re jealous about Kansas City’s current gigabit internet speeds, you’ve got a friend in FCC Chairman Julius Genachoski. The chairman has just issued the “Gigabit City Challenge.” What does he ho...
Google is rolling out a 1 Gbps broadband network to the citizens of Kansas City (both of them). As the fastest network available to the general public in the United States, and possibly the world, Google Fiber has obviously gained...
The average download speed differs depending on where you live. For example, according to Ookla’s SpeedTest.net, the average download speed in Hong Kong is 42.12 Mbps, the EU is 15.86 Mbps, and the States is 14.13 Mbps. Comp...
