Google Fiber is planning to bring its high-speed internet service to multiple cities in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska and Nevada over the next several years, Reuters news report said.
The expansion of broadband network from Google Fiber to 22 metro areas across the United States from 17 today includes previously announced projects to launch in Mesa, Arizona and Colorado Springs, Colorado. The choices were based the company’s findings of where speeds lag.
Google Fiber CEO Dinni Jain said: “There was an impression 10 years ago that Google Fiber was trying to build the entire country. We are not trying to build the entire country.”
Dinni Jain declined to comment on Google Fiber’s financial results or fundraising plans. Google Fiber was spun off from its parent company Alphabet in 2015. Dinni Jain joined Google Fiber in 2018 after serving as chief operating officer of Time Warner Cable.
Some other Alphabet subsidiaries have raised outside funding to independently validate their value, been shut down or subsumed by other entities. Google Fiber could face similar choices as the expansion materializes over the next three to five years.
The growth plan comes as Alphabet and other companies slow hiring and shutter some fringe projects as worries about a global recession rise.
Google began taking on internet service stalwarts such as Comcast and AT&T in 2010 with co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin declaring they were tired of waiting on Congress to drive the industry toward faster speeds at lower costs.
Competitors started matching Google Fiber’s gigabit per second offerings in initial launch sites such as Austin, Texas and even in Los Angeles and other areas under consideration.
Google Fiber over the last few years minimized expansion to West Des Moines, Iowa and within existing metropolitan areas.
Google Fiber will continue to pursue wireless service, through its Webpass brand, for multi-unit buildings. In some cases, Google Fiber will lease local fiber networks from other providers.
