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With its U-verse product, AT&T (formerly SBC) had pursued a strategy of Fiber to the Neighborhood (FTTN) and had even delivered Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) prior to the services' launch. Currently, U-verse is deployed as a Fiber to the Hub (FTTH) service; the line connecting the hub to the home is a dual copper pair line.
Google Fiber, sometimes stylized as GFiber, is a fiber broadband Internet service operated by Google Fiber Inc., [2] a subsidiary of Alphabet, [3] servicing a growing number of households in cities in 19 states across the United States. [4] In mid-2016, Google Fiber was estimated to have about 453,000 broadband customers. [5]
The list includes figures for both fixed wired broadband subscriptions and mobile cellular subscriptions: [6] Fixed-broadband access refers to high-speed fixed (wired) access to the public Internet at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s.
While Google Fiber is likely a few years away from having enough coverage to pose a real threat to Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T, its very presence may cause a shift in the strategies pursued by each.
Google Fiber has already entered Kansas City and Austin, Texas. But more importantly, it recently announced an expansion plan into 34 new cities. In unprecedented fashion, Google builds its ...
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By early 2017, the Webpass division of Google Fiber expanded 1 Gbit/s wireless service to customers in many cities in the United States. [22] In November 2016, Atlas Networks, an ISP that serves Seattle, deployed its V-band Gbit/s service to customers within the 750-metre (0.47-mile) to its fiber networks. The maximum throughput for each ...
Getty Images It's a sales come-on that's difficult to resist. Google (GOOG) (GOOGL), through its expanding fiber-optic network, will bring Internet at blazing speeds into your home or business.