Earlier this year we announced an experiment we hope will help make Internet access better and faster for everyone: to provide a community with ultra high-speed broadband, 100 times faster than what most people have access to today.

This week I joined Google as vice president of Access Services to oversee the Google Fiber team. Over the past several months I’ve been following the progress the team has already made—from experimenting with new fiber deployment technologies here on Google’s campus, to announcing a “beta” network to 850 homes at Stanford—and I’m excited for us to bring our ultra high-speed network to a community.

We had planned to announce our selected community or communities by the end of this year, but the level of interest was incredible—nearly 1,100 communities across the country responded to our announcement—and exceeded our expectations. While we’re moving ahead full steam on this project, we’re not quite ready to make that announcement.

We’re sorry for this delay, but we want to make sure we get this right. To be clear, we’re not re-opening our selection process—we simply need more time to decide than we’d anticipated. Stay tuned for an announcement in early 2011.

Posted by Milo Medin, Vice President, Access Services

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-google-fiber.html

Sneak Peek Memphis Says “Google, Hook Memphis Up!”

With much appreciation, music by: The City Champs

Get “Poppin” here >>

Many thanks to the Memphis Grizzlies Dance Team for supporting the city’s application for Google Fiber! Vote for the Grizz Girls in the NBA Dance Bracket beginning at 1pm CST on Friday, March 26 and ending Saturday, March 27 at 1pm!  Fans can vote on Friday and Saturday, so vote, vote, vote!

Get involved: Request for information

Google is asking local governments and residents to express their interest in the fiber optic trial, and to provide information about their community by completing our request for information.

http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options