Google Fiber To Provo, Utah Next

It's been just over a week since Google announced its plans to extend Fiber to the City of Violet Crown, Austin, Texas and we already know where to next. Provo, Utah will soon be home to the gigabit fiber network, as confirmed by Provo Mayor John Curtis. A fiber network is not entirely new to the city of Provo, which has previously been witness to a failed attempt at building a fiber-to-home cable under a public-private partnership called iProvo. Financial issues had Provo calling off the project and Utah's leading fiber-optic service Veracity Networks took over. More research tells that Veracity Networks sold its fiber-optic networks to iProvo (which is owned by Provo city) sometime around last year. Back to square one, it is likely that Google will be collaborating with the city to lay down its fiber.


As Google does not have to build its underlying fiber-optic network from scratch, Provo already has a headstart. According to a Google official, the first residents will be connected to the network by the end of this year.

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