Morgan report showing the increased importance of 1 Gbps-and-above service offerings for cable operators, particularly in regions marked by overbuilding. The Google Fiber Mesa announcement coincided with a J.P.

Last summer, however, Google Fiber touted renewed growth plans (opens in new tab), expanding into 22 metro areas from 17, while entering Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Idaho for the first time. It laid off 9% of its workforce that year (opens in new tab), paused expansion in 11 cities and completely withdrew from Louisville, Kentucky. In October, Google said customers in Utah, Kansas City and West Des Moines could begin testing the faster 5- and 8-Gbps tiers “as early as next month.” It described rollout of the faster tiers in five states starting in early 2023.īack in 2016, it appeared that Google might be losing interest - as it sometimes does - with its fiber internet service. Also, Ashley Church, Google Fiber’s West Region general manager, discusses Google Fiber's broader plans for Arizona - which include expansion throughout the state - in this blog post (opens in new tab). Google outlines its new 5- and 8 Gbps offerings, which were originally announced last fall (opens in new tab), on this landing page (opens in new tab). Mesa is also the first Arizona city to receive Google Fiber service, which also supports the operator's two other incumbent tiers: a symmetrical 1-Gbps plan for $70 a month and the $100-a-month symmetrical 2-Gbps plan that also includes the Wi-Fi 6 router and two mesh extenders.Įach of the four plans also includes a terabyte of cloud storage and professional installation. The symmetrical 5-Gbps tier comes with the same hardware and runs $125 a month.

The price tag for 8 Gbps, a Wi-Fi 6 router and two mesh extenders: $150 a month. And the 13-year-old Google Fiber initiative remains on the leading edge of this competition, launching for the first time new symmetrical 5 Gigabits per second and 8 Gbps symmetrical-speed tiers in Mesa, Arizona.

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