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Google Fiber reportedly coming to Austin, Texas

, Apr 5th 2013 Discuss [7]

Google Fiber is already settling down in Kansas City, and it's been slowly making its way to more neighborhoods in the area over the past few months. However, speculators have been wondering where the search giant will take their internet service next. According to recent reports, home of the SXSW festival Austin, Texas may be getting a deal. Read The Full Story

Google Fiber approved by Olathe, Kansas City Council

, Mar 20th 2013 Discuss [5]

Our lucky brethren in Kansas City have had access to Google Fiber, the much-envied service from Google. Now the Internet giant has announced that Fiber will be extending to a second location in Kansas, this time to Olathe, who's city council just approved the company's plans. The process isn't slated to take place for awhile yet, but was announced by Google shortly after the approval went through. Read The Full Story

First 3-D channels come to Google Fiber TV

, Mar 8th 2013 Discuss [1]

I remain quite jealous that my house can't get access to the incredibly fast Google Fiber Internet service or the Google Fiber TV service. I understand living in a more rural area likely means I'll never have access to impressive services like this. If you do happen to live in Kansas City and have access to Google Fiber TV and happen to be one of the few that has a 3-D TV in your home, the TV offering from Google now has two new 3-D channels to check out. Read The Full Story

Consumers don’t want (& won’t pay for) gigabit internet says Time Warner Cable

, Mar 1st 2013 Discuss [29]

Super-fast internet connections like Google Fiber have only geek, not consumer, appeal, Time Warner Cable's CFO has insisted, dismissing suggestions that the ISP will need to speed up its consumer service any time soon. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology Conference this week, chief financial officer Irene Esteves said that while the company has the capability to deliver high internet speeds, The Verge reports, right now customers don't actually want them. Read The Full Story

FCC Chairman proposes gigabit internet in all 50 states by 2015

, Jan 18th 2013 Discuss [5]

You may know a little about Google Fiber, the insanely fast internet that arrived in Kansas City not too long ago, but the unfortunate news is that Google isn't really planning on rolling its Fiber service out to a majority of the US. However, FCC Chairman Julius Genachoski is calling for gigabit internet in all 50 states by 2015. Read The Full Story

Google Fiber spreading to more Kansas City neighborhoods

, Dec 18th 2012 Discuss [1]

Google kicked off its first Google Fiber installations back in November. People in certain neighborhoods within Kansas City were able to get access to insanely fast Internet speeds via Google's new fiber-optic network. Google has announced this week that it is beginning sign-ups for five more neighborhoods in Kansas City. Read The Full Story

Netflix ranks ISPs on video-streaming efficiency, Google Fiber comes out on top

, Dec 11th 2012 Discuss [5]

It's no surprise that Netflix takes up a big chunk of internet bandwidth, so the company has decided to rank how fast various internet service providers can stream movies to Netflix customers. They've announced that they'll be releasing a new list every month starting with November 2012 (last month). Read The Full Story

Google confirms once-nixed phone services

, Dec 4th 2012 Discuss [5]

This week one Google executive is confirming that the company had indeed looked into creating their own wireless network for smartphones as if the news were no big deal at all. Of course the possibility of Google creating a wireless network would be as big – or bigger – news than their already initiated Google Fiber service that’s rolling out in Kansas City as we speak, but therein lies the catch. As it were, Google’s wireless network that could-have-been was just as nearly a reality right at the same time as Google Fiber took hold.

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A Google plan to kill carriers with WiFi is all too believable

, Nov 26th 2012 Discuss [42]

Could you live your mobile life on WiFi? Attempts to ween users off of expensive, subsidized smartphone deals have been more successful this year than every before; word earlier today that Google had acquired a WiFi hotspot company – and which later turned out to be false – was believable in part because the search company is a prime candidate for ousting cellular from the mobile equation. The ICOA deal may be fake, but Google‘s appetite to ditch the traditional carriers and strike out more or less alone isn’t new.

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SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 13, 2012

, Nov 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

Welcome to Tuesday evening everyone. We had a pretty big day, what with the reveal of the HTC DROID DNA and all. HTC announced that the DROID DNA will be arriving at Verizon on November 21, and we even managed to go hands-on with the device and its wireless charging dock. Of course, today was also the day that the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10 became available on the Google Play Store. All but the 16GB Nexus 10 sold through pretty quickly, so we hope you got your hands on the device you wanted before Google put up the out of stock notices. Read The Full Story

Google Fiber installations begin in Kansas City

, Nov 13th 2012 Discuss [5]

Today is a big day for some folks living in Kansas City as Google has kicked off the first of its Google Fiber installations. Google generated a lot of buzz back when it officially unveiled pricing for Google Fiber, and today the big G has announced that its ready to start connecting homes to its fiber network. Google has spent the last few weeks putting up fiber cables around Kansas City, and today it pulled fiber from the street to the first few houses in Hanover Heights. Read The Full Story

AT&T and Time Warner want Google Fiber Kansas City deal too

, Oct 2nd 2012 Discuss [8]

A few months ago, Google introduced its own unique fiber optic TV and internet service by launching it exclusively in Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS. However, the company didn't just pick the two cities at random. Google was given a number of incentives by both cities, and now AT&T and Time Warner are coming forward and demanding that they receive the same incentives as well in the Kansas City area. Read The Full Story
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