#fiber

Google Fiber announced last year that it will finally be coming back with a 5 gigabit per second offering after years of stagnation. As you see, the company has already layed down the groundwork for the service by laying down miles of fiber optic cable to complete with local ISP's until it fell quiet. As a new service, it is only understandable why Google Fiber only has a limited rollout area with the company announcing that its 5 Gig service will be available in "Kansas City, West Des Moines, and all our Utah cities," with an eventual rollout to 5 more states, however current plans show that they will not do a wider rollout. Should you live in the areas stated above, Google Fiber's 5Gbps service costs $125 a month which includes a professionally installed 10 Gig fiber modem and "a Wi-Fi 6 router and two mesh extenders." This also allows 5Gbps download and upload speeds. Google Fiber has already tested the use of 10 gig modem with an 8Gbps plan on the horizon very soon which should release by this year with pricing of up to $150 a month. Converge has just announced that its fiber network has now reached over 500,000 kilometers. In a report to the NTC, Converge has said that it has laid down over 523,000 kilometers of fiber nationwide, more than double from last year where they rolled out 260,000 kilometers of total fiber assets. Read more in our articles including "Google Fiber is back in business" and "Converge network reaches over 500,000km".