In October, Google Fiber introduced a ridiculously quick new tier of its Internet service: 20Gbps symmetrical. While that is 1,000 occasions sooner than what some Internet suppliers supply (particularly going by add speeds), what we did not know was the fee. A brand new weblog publish reveals who can get this new service, they usually’ll be paying $250 a month for it.
Google says, “We’re beginning in Kansas City, North Carolina’s Triangle Region, Arizona, and Iowa.” (Google tells me the “Triangle Region” means Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill). Google Fiber is constructed on Nokia’s upgradable “Quillion” Fiber platform, and upgrading to the brand new 25G PON (passive optical community) know-how permits it to push extra information over current fiber traces. Once it does extra upgrades, Google says it may possibly carry 20-gig service to extra cities. Back in October, Google Fiber’s head of product, Nick Saporito, advised Fierce Telecom that the plan is to carry 20-gig service to “in most, if not all, of our markets.”
20-gig will slot in as a new pricing tier at $250 a month, and different fiber pricing will keep the identical. That means $70 for 1 gig, $100 for 2 gig, $125 for 5 gig, and $150 for 8 gig; 20-gig installations will begin in Q1 of 2024.