Rumors about
Google (
GOOG) bringing
its high-speed fiber network to Austin, Texas gained a little more steam over the weekend when
unnamed sources told Austin-based station KVUE that Google would indeed announce plans to expand its fiber service to the city this week. And
now Engadget has got hold of a leaked embargoed press release from the Gig.U initiative congratulating the city of Austin for getting hooked up with Google Fiber, thus making it the second city to have access to the service that first launched in Kansas City last year.
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt late last year insisted that Google Fiber “isn’t just an experiment,” but rather “a real business” that the company is “trying to decide where to expand next,” so it’s not all that surprising that Google has decided to slowly roll it out to other markets.
