Google has just announced Google Fiber, a
broadband service and interactive television provider that will offer internet
speeds up to 100X faster than average broadband. Google has pledged that
customers who sign-up will enjoy mouthwatering downloads and upload speeds of 1
GBps. That kind of speed is best suited for, well, anything you can think of.
You will have the capability to stream an HD movie, download music, and order a
pizza all at the same time.
Google is offering three different packages
of Fiber.
Google just announced plans to be a cable TV provider
The Gigabit and Fiber TV service will cost
$120 a month and will include 1 GBps download and upload speeds without a data
cap, as well as a terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage. You'll be able to
watch all regular broadcast TV channels, hundreds of Google Fiber TV channels,
thousands of TV shows on demand, and premium movie channels.
Package two is for broadband-only
customers. It will cost $70 a month and offer 1 Gbps downloads and uploads. It
will also provide the 1 terabyte of data storage.
Package three is free internet. For the
$300 fiber optics set-up fee, you will get 5MBps download speeds and 1 MBps
upload speeds for seven years. Google will offer this service for a limited
time only. You can pay $25 a month for the first year, up to the $300.
The equipment, appropriately named Google's
Network Box, will be placed in your home and will serve as a hub. The box
serves as a Wi-Fi router and has four Ethernet ports. A remote control would
probably work just fine, but no Google will be providing customers with a Nexus
7 tablet to control their Network Box free of charge.
Here is a full spectrum of the plan,
including the channels available.
You may be asking yourself "is Google
Fiber available in my area right now?" The answer is most likely no. The
service is only available in Kansas Cities. That's Kansas City, Kansas and
Kansas City, Missouri.
Google fiber town
If you want Google Fiber to be rolled out
in your Kansas neighborhood here are the details: Google is launching virtual
"rallies" to encourage people to sign up on a Web site. The golden
number is 40-80 households, once that many houses register for the service,
Google will hit the "on" switch.
