Google today said it is beginning design work on a fiber network for San Antonio, Texas. With 1.4 million residents, it will be the biggest Google Fiber city so far.
San Antonio is the ninth metro area where Google has confirmed it will bring its $70-per-month gigabit fiber service. This includes three metro areas where Google Fiber is already available—Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri; Austin, Texas; and Provo, Utah—and six where it's planned.
Google did not say when fiber service will be ready in San Antonio. "Soon, we’ll enter the design phase of building our fiber network in San Antonio," Mark Strama, the head of Google Fiber in Texas, wrote in the announcement. "We’ll work closely with city leaders over the next several months to plan the layout of over 4,000 miles of fiber-optic cables—enough to stretch to Canada and back—across the metro area. This is no small task, and it will take some time, but we can’t wait to get started."
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