They seem to be expanding into a few more neighborhoods in Austin.
As recently as October 19th, there has been news of expansion. A neighborhood association Facebook page post from that date says Fiber will start shallow trenching in their neighborhood, and some service could be turned on as early as November.
They’ve stopped the rollout to new cities - however in cities they currently exist in they continue to roll out new fiber, just at a rate slower than molasses. Austin TX seems to get a new neighborhood once every 2-3 months or so.
I hope the fiber roll-out will also include the 78758/78759 Austin areas, not just because I live in the area, but also cause Google's Austin office is located there too :).
When I moved to Austin in 2013, I was told I would be in a fiberhood within a year. Almost a decade later, still no fiber in that area. I'm not holding my breath on Google Fiber expansions.
They said the roll-out was focusing on Austin City Limits, and more specifically they stated the desire to release Fiber in public buildings (offices, hospitals, schools, etc.).
This paired with the UT Austin teacher video they released leads me to believe it'll be available to the campus area, probably downtown as well (St. Davids main and Brackenridge Medical Center) and probably the surrounding neighborhoods.
Personally, I would be surprised if it went east of I-35, south of Capitol of Texas highway, west of Mopac, or North of 183 in its initial release.
I would bet you'll be in the first (or second) roll out of fiberhoods. My best bet is UT Austin and downtown first, plus surrounding neighborhoods. Then they'll move West, then South.
I'm in Austin and can't wait. Unfortunately I think I'm going to have to continue to pay TimeWarner for another 1-2 years at least.
I'm interested to see where the first 'fiberhood' is going to be in Austin. South Austin, 78704 would be awesome. Any Austin people on here have any guesses?
> Our goal is to start connecting homes in Austin by mid-2014.
The timeline Google's followed in Kansas City suggests it will be another year until service is available to a significant chunk of Austin, and likely well into 2016 or beyond before the whole city is hooked up. Fiber to whatever suburbs are invited to the party will likely follow after that.
But hopefully the build-out gets ramped up, both in Austin and KC, now that Google's had some time to work out some of the early kinks.
I am in Austin city limits but outside the city center and we are nowhere close to getting Google fiber. I wouldn't get too excited by this, yet, especially if you're not in a densely populated part of town.
"Sign-ups are beginning today in South and Southeast Austin. We’re starting with these neighborhoods, and will be opening new areas on an on-going basis."
Also, I'm pretty sure that TWC is available pretty much everywhere in Austin.
AT&T Fiber is expanding quickly in North Texas. Got 2.5 gigabit a couple years ago to my suburban home in the edge of DFW where it transitions to rural. Their headquarters are in Dallas so they are keen on expanding locally.
Actually it's fortunate for Austin. It has pushed the other companies to offer much more bandwidth. Before Fiber was announced the max you could get was 50Mb down.
I'm really looking forward to their fibre rolling out in my neighborhood (for an entire year now). Last week I saw one of their trucks installing cable on the street right perpendicular to me.
As recently as October 19th, there has been news of expansion. A neighborhood association Facebook page post from that date says Fiber will start shallow trenching in their neighborhood, and some service could be turned on as early as November.
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