{"id":114364,"date":"2020-10-13T18:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/google-fiber-to-offer-2gbps-download-speeds-next-year-for-100-a-month"},"modified":"2020-10-13T18:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T01:25:50","slug":"google-fiber-to-offer-2gbps-download-speeds-next-year-for-100-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/google-fiber-to-offer-2gbps-download-speeds-next-year-for-100-a-month","title":{"rendered":"Google Fiber to Offer 2Gbps Download Speeds Next Year for $100 a Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fysWIy0BAKM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 2 Gig service is targeting households with heavy internet users who are now forced to work from home due to COVID-19. \u201cSo we\u2019re more than a little excited to announce 2 Gig today\u2014bringing even more bandwidth and speed to customers in internet-intensive households who may need more than a gig to do their thing, whatever that may be,\u201d wrote Amalia O\u2019Sullivan, Google Fiber\u2019s director of product management, in the announcement. (That said, upload speeds will remain at 1Gbps.) <\/p>\n<p>Google Fiber is currently looking for subscribers in Nashville, Tennessee, and Huntsville, Alabama, to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSf1Eo-pb7KFaoW2y8x1UFR74hyGClaYQhYx7vFYpwfBnA7GGw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\">sign up<\/a> as testers for the 2 Gig service. The beta will then roll out to other Google Fiber cities in the fall before the official launch. Interested customers can also go to the Google Fiber <a href=\"https:\/\/fiber.google.com\/2gig\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> to sign up for email updates on the 2Gbps service\u2019s availability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 Gig service is targeting households with heavy internet users who are now forced to work from home due to COVID-19. \u201cSo we\u2019re more than a little excited to announce 2 Gig today\u2014bringing even more bandwidth and speed to customers in internet-intensive households who may need more than a gig to do their thing, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114364","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\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}