| 1 | Google Fiber is coming to San Antonio, a move that will make the company’s speedy 1Gbps internet available to the city’s 1.4 million residents. |
| 2 | So far this is the largest market that Google is launching Fiber in, though not the first in Texas — service in Austin started up last December. |
| 3 | San Antonio’s people are in for a tough wait; Google is only now nearing the design phase of a daunting project that calls for over 4,000 miles of fiber-optic cable. |
| 4 | With San Antonio’s addition, here’s what the current Fiber map looks like — now and for the near future. |
| 5 | In March, San Antonio city officials worked to clear the way for Google to enter town. |
| 6 | So San Antonio has graduated from “potential Fiber city” into the real thing. |
| 7 | But as Google freely admits, it’s going to be some time before residents can get the company’s TV and internet offerings and ditch whoever they’re paying now. |
| 8 | AT&T is also planning to bring its own gigabit internet service, “U-Verse with AT&T GigaPower,” to San Antonio, so Google won’t be without competition. |
| 9 | AT&T and Comcast have been expanding their own ultra-fast connections — in some cases faster than Fiber — to push back against Fiber’s buildout. |
| 10 | By and large though, most of us are still limited to the fastest tier offered by cable internet providers. |