The wait for quality and high speed broadband service is over for Austin, Texas. Soon, Google will feature basic broadband service at an affordable price of $70 per month. 1 Gbps broadband speed will be provided for this price tag. The basic broadband plan will feature a download speed of 5Mbps (maximum limit) and an upload speed of 1MBps (maximum limit). The consumers have to pay out a one time ‘construction fee’ of $300 for availing these services. No monthly charges follow up after the payout of the construction fee. Google said that, the users of some neighborhoods will be able to sign up for the broadband services next month.
The 1Gbps plan which is regarded as the middle tier plan on the basis of cost comparison amongst the other two plans will attract no construction fee in case of a one year commitment. This service as said before would cost users $70 per month. This plan features 1TB cloud storage across different platforms like Gmail, Google+ photos and Google Drive. The top end plan in the Google’s offering is for $130 per month. This plan also consists of 1Gbps speed and 1TB cloud storage across Google platforms. The addition to this plan is in respect to the TV channels. This plan features more than 150 TV channels with a feature allowing the user to record maximum 8 TV shows at once.
Google, however, has not notified a particular date on which these services will be switched on. However, the company said that they had made a lot of progress, but has lots more digging to do as it has to lay fiber for 1000 plus miles to set up the network. Google is providing final touches to its operations base at 201 Colorado Street. Google Fiber services are available in different cities like Kansas City & Provo, Utah for prices similar to what is being offered in Austin.
About Google:
Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. Most of its profits are derived from AdWords.
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. Its mission statement from the outset was "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," and its unofficial slogan was "Don't be evil." - Read more on Wikipedia.
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