Google Fiber’s Internet Plans Are Getting Simpler

Google Fiber is changing up its nett plans successful Huntsville, Alabama and Nashville, Tennessee. The caller Core 1 Gig, Home 3 Gig, and Edge 8 Gig plans look to personification launched past play and streamline nan company’s existing options, arsenic spotted earlier by 9to5Google.

These options move nan 1 Gig, 2 Gig, 5 Gig, and 8 Gig plans presently disposable successful different supported cities. Like nan existing 1 Gig plan, Google Fiber’s caller Core 1 Gig action costs $70 / play pinch symmetrical 1 gigabit per 2nd upload and download speeds. It comes pinch GFiber’s Multi-Gig Wi-Fi 6E Router and supports up to 1 mesh extender.

The $100 / play Home 3 Gig strategy sits betwixt nan $100 / play 2 Gig and $125 / play 5 Gig options, offering up to 3-gig speeds, a GFiber Multi-Gig Wi-Fi 6E router, up to 2 mesh extenders, connected pinch privilege room optimization that brings “additional wired connectivity to nan rooms that matter most.” Subscribers tin too adhd an nett artillery backup for an different $10 per month, which offers up to 2 hours of “full-bandwidth uptime, pinch nary nett slow downs” successful suit a powerfulness outage knocks retired your router aliases fibre jack.

Lastly, Google’s $150 / play 8 Gig Edge “always-on” strategy comes pinch upload and download speeds of up to 8 gigabits per second, nan aforesaid GFiber Wi-Fi 6E router, and up to 2 mesh extenders. It too offers up to 5,000 quadrate feet of coverage, privilege room optimization, an included nett backup battery, and a 25 percent refund if your nett goes down for complete 45 minutes.

It’s not clear whether Google will bring these plans to overmuch cities, and nan institution didn’t instantly respond to The Verge’s petition for overmuch information. Since Google Fiber’s inception successful 2010, nan institution has been gradually expanding its fibre footprint crossed nan US while achieving faster speeds. Google rolled retired a 20-gig Wi-Fi 7 strategy successful premier cities past year.