Google Fiber (which is increasingly going by “GFiber” these days) is upgrading its service to start at 3 Gig as part of its multi-gig future, beginning in Des Moines.
The “Core 1 Gig” plan is now called “Core 3 Gig” (symmetrical), while keeping the same $70 per month price introduced in 2012. This comes with a GFiber Wi-Fi 6E Router.
Meanwhile, “Home 3 Gig” is now “Home 5 Gig” at the same $100/month.
“Edge 8 Gig” is unchanged at $150/month. This Core, Home, and Edge branding was introduced in 2024.
Home 5 Gig and Edge 8 Gig come with a new GFiber Multi-Gig Wi-Fi 7 Router. It offers the “smartest traffic handling, best security, and multi-gig speeds even over wireless throughout your home.” The higher tiers also offer up to 2 hours of Internet Battery Backup, and an “Uptime Guarantee.”
Top comment by JG
Now we just need to get Google to expand coverage ...
*A decade or so ago I saw a report that said Goldman Sachs had estimated building out a high speed nation wide fiber to the home network would cost about the same amount that the FCC had planned to award throughout the decade to expand coverage if paired with road work...
Another study suggested such a network would add something like 100 billion to our GDP annually.
Students with higher speed connections also tend to have better academics than their lower speed connected counterparts...
[As an added benefit, this network could be designed to allow multiple ISPs to provide service over it... Every American could go from only having a choice of Comcast/Spectrum as a sole wired connection to having Spectrum, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Google, etc]
Des Moines is Google Fiber’s first “multi-gig internet” market. Existing customers “woke up this morning to up to 3x higher speeds for the same price they’ve been paying, without having to do anything.” It was “just a click of the button” for the Alphabet-owned ISP:
We’re building our networks in all our cities to be truly future-proof, which allows us to increase speeds for years to come via simple software updates rather than additional construction which can take a long time and be disruptive to residents.
This upgrade is coming to more cities. In the future, GFiber is working towards offering 25 Gig PON technology.
GFiber is available in the following cities:
- Alabama: Huntsville
- Arizona: Chandler, Mesa, Queen Creek, Tempe*
- California: Oakland*, Orange County, San Diego*, San Francisco*
- Colorado: Adams County*, Denver*, Golden*, Lakewood, Westminster*, Wheat Ridge*, Douglas County*, Broomfield County*
- Florida: Miami*
- Georgia: Atlanta
- Idaho: Pocatello
- Illinois: Chicago*
- Iowa: Council Bluffs, Des Moines, Norwalk*, West Des Moines
- Kansas: Kansas City, Lawrence*
- Missouri: Jefferson City, Kansas City
- Nebraska: Bellevue, Omaha
- Nevada: Metro Las Vegas*
- North Carolina: Charlotte, The Triangle, Wilmington*
- South Carolina: Fort Mill, Tega Cay
- Tennessee: Murfreesboro, Nashville, Smyrna, Franklin
- Texas: Austin, San Antonio
- Utah: Logan, Provo, Salt Lake Valley
- Washington: Seattle*
*Coming soon or GFiber Webpass
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