In October, Google Fiber introduced a ridiculously speedy new tier of its Web provider: 20Gbps symmetrical. Whilst that is 1,000 occasions quicker than what some Web suppliers be offering (particularly going through add speeds), what we did not know was once the price. A new weblog publish unearths who can get this new provider, and they’re going to be paying $250 a month for it.
Google says, “We’re beginning in Kansas Town, North Carolina’s Triangle Area, Arizona, and Iowa.” (Google tells me the “Triangle Area” approach 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) era permits it to push extra information over current fiber traces. As soon as it does extra upgrades, Google says it will possibly convey 20-gig provider to extra towns. Again in October, Google Fiber’s head of product, Nick Saporito, advised Fierce Telecom that the plan is to convey 20-gig provider to “in maximum, if now not all, of our markets.”
20-gig will fit in as a brand new pricing tier at $250 a month, and different fiber pricing will keep the similar. That implies $70 for 1 gig, $100 for two gig, $125 for five gig, and $150 for 8 gig; 20-gig installations will get started in Q1 of 2024.
