{"id":113049,"date":"2020-09-15T21:22:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/google-fiber-to-offer-2-gig-internet-for-100-a-month-starting-this-year"},"modified":"2020-09-15T21:22:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T04:22:35","slug":"google-fiber-to-offer-2-gig-internet-for-100-a-month-starting-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/google-fiber-to-offer-2-gig-internet-for-100-a-month-starting-this-year","title":{"rendered":"Google Fiber to offer 2 Gig internet for $100 a month starting this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-fiber-to-offer-2-gig-internet-for-100-a-month-starting-this-year2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rolling out in most of its cities starting next year.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Google Fiber will double the maximum internet speed offered to its customers starting later this year from 1 Gbps to 2 Gbps, <a href=\"https:\/\/fiber.google.com\/blog\/2020\/the-next-step-in-speed-experience-2-gig-now-with-the-google-fiber-trusted-tester-program\/\">the company announced<\/a> this week. The new plan will cost $100 a month, $30 more than the company\u2019s existing 1 Gbps option. However, only downloads will be offered at the new maximum speed; uploads will remain at 1 Gbps. With the new plan, Google says it will provide customers with an unspecified \u201cnew Wi-Fi 6 router and mesh extender\u201d to make the most of the new speeds.<\/p>\n<p>Pilots of the new plan are due to kick off in Nashville, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama, next month, with a full rollout in the two cities planned for later in the year. The company says it currently offers Google Fiber and Google Fiber Webpass (which uses over-the-air transmission rather than fiber optic cables) in <a href=\"https:\/\/fiber.google.com\/blog\/2020\/the-next-step-in-speed-experience-2-gig-now-with-the-google-fiber-trusted-tester-program\/#:~:text=19%20Google%20Fiber%20and%20Google%20Fiber%20Webpass%20cities%20across%20the%20U.S.%2C\">19 cities in the US<\/a>. 2 Gbps pilots are due to start in its other markets later this year, with a rollout in \u201cmost\u201d cities in early 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling out in most of its cities starting next year. Google Fiber will double the maximum internet speed offered to its customers starting later this year from 1 Gbps to 2 Gbps, the company announced this week. The new plan will cost $100 a month, $30 more than the company\u2019s existing 1 Gbps option. However, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}