{"id":22720,"date":"2016-02-24T16:48:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T00:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/google-fiber-is-coming-to-san-francisco"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:49:34","slug":"google-fiber-is-coming-to-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/google-fiber-is-coming-to-san-francisco","title":{"rendered":"Google Fiber is coming to San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-fiber-is-coming-to-san-francisco.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google Fiber is heading close to home for its next location: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiber.google.com\/cities\/sanfrancisco\/\">San Francisco<\/a>. Google announced this morning that it intends to bring its fast gigabit internet to \u201ca portion of San Francisco,\u201d specifically to apartments, condos, and affordable housing units. Details on exactly where and when are nonexistent for now, and Google suggests that we may be waiting a while to hear more.<\/p>\n<p>What Google Fiber does say is that it won\u2019t<i> <\/i>be building out its own network in San Francisco, as it\u2019s done in many other cities. Instead, it\u2019ll rely on existing fiber networks to provide its service. That may limit what Google can do and where it can go, but it also means a much faster path to launch. \u201cTo date, we\u2019ve focused mostly on building fiber-optic networks from scratch,\u201d Michael Slinger, Google Fiber\u2019s business operations director, writes in a blog post. \u201cNow, as Google Fiber grows, we\u2019re looking for more ways to serve cities of different shapes and sizes.\u201d Google Fiber is already taking this approach in a couple other markets, including Huntsville, Alabama, where <a href=\"http:\/\/googlefiberblog.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/huntsville.html\">earlier this week<\/a> it announced plans to launch using the city\u2019s municipal network.<\/p>\n<p>As it\u2019s done elsewhere, Google Fiber plans to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/2\/3\/10905160\/google-free-internet-public-housing-kansas-city\">provide free gigabit internet service<\/a> to \u201csome public and affordable housing properties\u201d in San Francisco. It\u2019s also working with a nonprofit to teach people basic internet skills, like setting up an email account and applying for jobs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/2\/24\/11104932\/google-fiber-san-francisco-launch-announced?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/2\/24\/11104932\/google-fiber-san-...ce=twitter<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Fiber is heading close to home for its next location: San Francisco. Google announced this morning that it intends to bring its fast gigabit internet to \u201ca portion of San Francisco,\u201d specifically to apartments, condos, and affordable housing units. Details on exactly where and when are nonexistent for now, and Google suggests that we [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1878,15,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-employment","category-habitats","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62675,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22720\/revisions\/62675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}