Google’s internet service goes live and according to Google their Google Fiber is the fastest internet available in the United States. According to reports the service provides speeds of 1 gigabits per second.
The system will provide online speeds of 1 gigabit per second, about a hundred times faster than the average U.S. connection, along with television programming. Google said on Sept. 9 that at least 180 out of 202 neighborhoods in the Kansas City area have qualified for the project, which will only go into areas where residents have requested the service.
The effort, known as Google Fiber, marks a new stage for the Web-search giant, which will run the program as a for-profit business. Unlike Google’s free Wi-Fi service in its hometown of Mountain View, California, or the high-speed fiber project at Stanford University, Google Fiber isn’t an experiment, said Kevin Lo, the general manager in charge of the project.
“This is a real business,” Lo said in an interview last week at the Google’s Fiber Space, a converted mini mall on the border of Kansas and Missouri. “Our goal is to be successful in delivering 1-gigabit Internet and TV in Kansas City.”
