TBG client, Huntsville Utilities, announces Google Fiber in Huntsville, Alabama.
Its “dark fiber” project in Huntsville creates a model that might finally thrust US Internet access into the 21st Century
“This week, Google launched what amounts to a religious war in American telecom land.
In a surprising announcement, the Alphabet company known as Google Fiber said it would expand its high speed Internet access services to Huntsville, Alabama — but in a different way that it currently has started up operations in cities like Austin and Kansas City. In cities it services to date, Google Fiber actually lays down the fiber-optic cables that allow it to deliver super-high numbers of bits to customers and businesses. But in Huntsville, it will lease “dark” fiber that will be built and owned by the electric utility in that city.”