Google’s high-speed Internet service Fiber is only available in a few cities for now, 7 to be exact, but they have been pretty open with their plans to expand to more cities in the near future. In fact, they have a few more upcoming and they have also marked several potential fiber cities. A new filing that they did with the FCC indicates that they are really serious about it and in fact, they want to, well, speed it up (pun intended).
Details about the FCC filing are pretty sparse since the document was heavily redacted. But what it wants to do is to test “experimental transmitters” up to 24 US locations, including Provo, Utah, Omaha, Nebraska, and Boulder. Some of them are already fiber cities but the filing involves requesting for authorization to operate between a 3.4 and 3.8 GHz band.
Currently, they are testing out a new wireless transmission technology in Kansas City at 3.5GHz. They acquired Webpass, a point to point wireless Internet company and so now they have been focusing on pairing existing fiber with wireless tech, when initially they were trying to run high bandwidth fiber optic cables directly to each house. However, that plan seems to be not working as it is pretty expensive and takes a lot of time.
The planned tests will be non-commercial for now and is limited to Google employees, contractors, and “trusted testers”. No time frame has been revealed, so we will just be patiently waiting until Google will announce their plans on what this FCC filing means.
VIA: Business Insider
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