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Google Fiber has been "available and growing" in Austin for close to a decade now and it's still not available at my Austin address. I'm not going to hold my breath.

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This is not entirely Google's fault. As I recall*, the incumbents were doing their damnedest to deny Google access to existing infra (utility poles, buried, etc.), which significantly slowed the roll out (while also increasing the cost). I did eventually get Google Fiber at my home and it was amazing. 1Gb for $70 with no contract and I don't remember having a single outage.

*I bought a new build in 2016 in South Austin and had to wait some time before Google Fiber became available

I waited over two years after signup, but they finally delivered in 2021.

It seems like things have picked up recently in Austin, but yeah it's taking forever. Maybe Google remembered this still exists?

Same in ATL. They run fiber to a building 200m from my condo, but haven't done jack to expand further.

That was my experience in Brookhaven. Google wired up new buildings but didn’t build out to other homes. AT&T did attach fiber to the pole by my house and I managed to convince them to install fiber. Moved to Roswell and my neighborhood is wired up with AT&T fiber except my street. Had to get Xfinity and my upload speed is crap.

Same, but in a different city that has allegedly had it since 2015.

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