Google Fiber Blog: February 2017

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Access’ Next Steps with Citizens Broadband Radio Service

Friday, February 24, 2017

Posted by Mathew Varghese, Product Lead for Mobility
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Labels: CBRS , SAS , spectrum

Webpass goes Mile High with the last mile

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Webpass Denver launch team

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Google Fiber arrives in Raleigh: announcing customer signups and our new Fiber Space

Wednesday, February 01, 2017

Just five months after launching in Morrisville, today Google Fiber is accepting sign-ups for residents and businesses in the North Hills, midtown area of Raleigh. Those who sign up will have the opportunity to join the many Morrisville residents now using Google Fiber. If you live in the broader Triangle, check your address and be among the first to know where we go next, at fiber.google.com/triangle.

Google Fiber installation van, Raleigh skyline. Van art by Adam Dixon; photographed by Stephen Sugg

We’re also happy to announce the grand opening of our brand new Raleigh Fiber Space, in the historic 518 West Jones building in Glenwood South. Come step inside and take Google Fiber’s superfast Gigabit Internet and TV for a spin. Our first community event takes place this week during Raleigh First Friday. In celebration of our local artist community and to kick off Black History Month, we are unveiling the latest addition to Raleigh’s mural scene, created by Victor Knight, III, as well as some of his other works. Providing beats for the evening will be local legend, 9th Wonder. We hope you can join us!

Grand opening of the Google Fiber Space in Raleigh. Photographed by Aaron Lindberg

Finally, we’re continuing our work in the community to help those most impacted by the digital divide. We’re thrilled to share today that we’re preparing to serve our first Gigabit Communities property at The Oaks in the coming months. Gigabit Communities is a Google Fiber program that brings free gigabit Internet to residents in select public and low-income housing properties. We know that digital literacy is an important component of any inclusion program, so we’ve been working closely with nonprofits across the Triangle, including Code the Dream, The Forge Institute and ThinkHouse, and to support digital inclusion fellows at the Kramden Institute and the Triangle Literacy Council.

Raleigh residents in North Hills, midtown will be able to sign up for one of the following plans:

See https://fiber.google.com/cities/triangle/plans for more information

Eligible small businesses can sign up for one of three business offerings.

Our teams remain hard at work building one of the largest infrastructure projects in Triangle history and we can’t wait for even more customers in the Triangle to give Fiber a try. You can track our construction progress on our website: fiber.google.com/triangle. And if you live in an apartment building, while you’re there you can check out our Apartment Finder to see if your building is on track to get Fiber soon.

Happy surfing!

Posted by Erik Garr, Southeast Regional Manager, Google Fiber

Note for reporters: download our press kit at www.google.com/fiber/trianglepresskit.