Google Fiber
Broadband network from Alphabet in the United States
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| January 2025 | Google Fiber unveiled new updated internet plans and speeds, discontinuing the 1TB free Google Drive offering. |
| October 1 2024 | Google Japan created the Gboard Double-Sided Version, a keyboard uniquely shaped like a Möbius Strip, featuring a two-sided design. |
| 2023 | The Google Fiber store in Austin was closed, though the network buildout in the city continued. |
| October 2023 | Google Fiber rebranded to GFiber and announced plans to offer 20Gig internet and Wi-Fi 7 hardware. |
| October 1 2023 | Google Japan introduced the Gboard CAPS, a large key-shaped hat where users can select letters by rotating and transmit a keypress by pressing down on the hat. |
| August 21 2023 | Google Fiber launched its 5 Gig service in the Austin market, offering significantly enhanced internet speeds. |
| October 1 2022 | Google Japan released the Gboard Bar Version, an extraordinary single-row keyboard that spans 5.25 feet in length. |
| August 2022 | Google Fiber announced expansion into 22 metro areas across Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and Nevada, including Mesa, Arizona, and Colorado Springs, Colorado. |
| March 2022 | Google Fiber announced expansion to the Des Moines, Iowa metro area, marking its first expansion in five years. |
| March 22 2022 | Google announced the start of service in Sandy and North Salt Lake, and approval to begin construction in White City, Draper, Riverton, Springville, West Bountiful, and West Jordan. |
| February 24 2022 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into West Jordan, Utah, with construction slated to begin later in 2022 and first customers expected around early 2023. |
| February 2 2022 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into Draper, Utah, with infrastructure construction planned to begin in spring 2022 and estimated completion in one year. |
| January 2022 | TV service was fully discontinued for existing clients. |
| December 28 2021 | Google posted a blog article reflecting on the year, confirming that Millcreek, South Salt Lake, Holladay, and Taylorsville began offering Google Fiber service in 2021. |
| December 14 2021 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into Riverton, Utah, with construction expected to begin in the second half of 2022 and customer service anticipated for late 2022 or early 2023. |
| October 20 2021 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into Springville, Utah, with construction planned to begin in spring 2022 and continue through 2023. |
| October 8 2021 | Google announced plans to expand Google Fiber into South Jordan, Utah, with initial service expected in early 2022. |
| October 1 2021 | Google Japan resumed its annual tradition of creating novelty keyboards with the Gboard Yunomi, a keyboard designed in the form of a traditional Japanese teacup with keycaps representing traditional sushi fish. |
| July 26 2021 | Google announced expansion of Google Fiber into Woods Cross, Utah, with service planned for residents in spring 2022. |
| July 26 2021 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into North Salt Lake, Utah, with construction expected to begin soon after. |
| May 5 2021 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into Sandy, Utah, with an initial timeline to complete an 'initial footprint' within two years. |
| April 22 2021 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into Taylorsville, Utah. |
| March 22 2021 | Google Fiber announced its launch of high-speed Internet, TV, and telephone service in northeast West Des Moines, Iowa, expanding its telecommunications service to a new urban area. |
| March 11 2021 | Google announced the start of Google Fiber construction in Holladay, Utah, with plans originally approved in November 2020. |
| February 25 2021 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into South Salt Lake, Utah. |
| July 14 2020 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into Millcreek, Utah, with the goal of serving their first customers in early 2021. |
| April 1 2020 | Google discontinued its annual April Fools' Day joke tradition due to the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the end of nearly two decades of playful product hoaxes. |
| April 1 2020 | Google canceled its annual April Fools' Day jokes for the first time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, instead encouraging employees to focus on pandemic relief efforts. |
| February 2020 | Google Fiber discontinued offering TV service directly to new customers, instead promoting virtual MVPD services like YouTube TV, FuboTV, and Philo during sign-up. |
| April 15 2019 | Google Fiber officially discontinued service in Louisville after facing criticism for disruptive infrastructure installations and poor workmanship. The company agreed to pay $3.8 million for cleanup efforts. |
| April 1 2019 | Google Japan released an April Fools' Day joke featuring a 'Gboard Spoon Bending' technology, presenting a smart spoon that allegedly allows users to type Japanese characters by bending it. The fictional invention claimed to provide effortless typing in any location and hinted at future bending technologies like a fishing rod version and a telepathic spoon. |
| February 2019 | Google announced the planned shutdown of Google Fiber service in Louisville, Kentucky, with service to cease on April 15. |
| 2018 | At Google I/O, Google announced a real Morse code input feature for mobile keyboards, inspired by the earlier Gmail Tap joke, and highlighted the work of Tania Finlayson in developing the accessibility feature. |
| April 2 2018 | Huntsville Utilities continued building fiber infrastructure in Southeast Huntsville, which was subsequently turned over to Google Fiber for service provision. |
| 2017 | Google announced a fictional datacenter expansion to Mars called 'Ziggy Stardust', which included a playful Google Street View tour of the imaginary Mars location for Google Cloud Platform as an April Fools' Day joke. |
| May 23 2017 | Google Fiber began offering high-speed Internet, TV, and telephone service in north Huntsville, Alabama. |
| April 2017 | Google Fiber announced construction plans for Louisville, Kentucky, planning to deploy internet service using innovative shallow trenching technique. |
| October 2016 | All Google Fiber expansion plans were put on hold and some jobs were cut, though existing services continued. |
| August 24 2016 | Google Fiber service became available for signup in Salt Lake City. |
| April 1 2016 | Google introduced a new feature for Google Photos that enabled users to search their photos using emojis. |
| February 22 2016 | Google announced its expansion of Google Fiber into Huntsville, Alabama, marking a significant expansion of its high-speed internet service to a new city. |
| August 2015 | Google announced its intention to restructure the company, moving Google Fiber to become a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. |
| April 1 2015 | Google Maps engineers from the Sydney office released an elaborate April Fools' Day joke claiming that the Earth's equator was slipping south at a rate of 25 km per year, suggesting that Australia could potentially move into the Northern Hemisphere by 2055. The prank was 'supported' by pseudoscientific evidence from Veritasium's Derek Muller about Milankovitch cycles. |
| March 24 2015 | Google announced Google Fiber expansion into Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| December 3 2014 | Google began taking registrations from residents and small businesses in Austin for its fiber internet service. |
| October 15 2014 | Google announced that Austin signups for Google Fiber would commence in December 2014. |
| April 2014 | Google and Nest Labs collaborated with Virgin Airlines to create an April Fools' Day joke about a fictional 'Total Temperature Control' feature allowing passengers to individually adjust their personal temperature on aircraft. |
| April 1 2014 | Google collaborated with The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, and Nintendo to launch a Google Maps Pokémon Challenge, allowing users to capture Pokémon virtually while exploring real-world locations through the Google Maps app for iOS and Android. This concept would later inspire the development of Pokémon Go in 2016. |
| April 1 2014 | Google announced Shelfies (Shareable Selfies), allowing users to add and share pictures of themselves as Gmail custom themes. The first version of Brotli compression format specification was also published. |
| April 17 2013 | Google announced Provo, Utah as the third Google Fiber City, acquiring the existing 'iProvo' fiber network for $1 and committing to upgrade the network to gigabit capacity. |
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