Google Fiber Coming To Nashville

According to sources, including the Wall Street Journal, Google is set to announce the expansion of its Google Fiber internet service to four new cities with the details of the new rollout coming in the next few days. According to the publication’s sources, the company will start to offer the one-gigabit broadband network in Atlanta, Nashville, and in two cities in North Carolina — Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte.

According to WSJ, local media in the cities were clued into the expansion after receiving invitations from Google to attend events scheduled this week. It’s not yet clear what kind of deals the cities will get — Google has yet to comment — but it’s likely that customers will be able to get gigabit internet for around $80 per month, the same price as customers in Kansas City, where the service first launched in 2012. People in the new areas can expect Google to take around a year to build the requisite infrastructure for fiber-optic internet, but not every neighborhood will receive it — interest is gauged by area, and the company won’t lay down the network if it doesn’t get enough of a response.

Does this mean the service would expand to the Williamson County area? Probably not any time soon, but the possibility is there.