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Google Fiber Expands to Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Raleigh

Google announced plans to bring its fiber access service to 18 cities in the south-eastern U.S. across four new metro areas: Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham.

The company said its next steps will be to to work with these cities to create a detailed map for deploying thousands of miles of fiber, using existing infrastructure such as utility poles and underground conduit.

Google Fiber is currently live in Kansas City, Provo and Austin. Google also noted that it is continuing to explore bringing fiber to five additional metro areas—Phoenix, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and San Jose.

http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/google-fiber-is-coming-to-atlanta.html

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