Google Fiber coming to San Antonio

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It’s done – San Antonio is going to become a Google Fiber city.

The Internet giant’s blazing fast gigabit network is headed to the Alamo City, the Mountain View, California-based company announced Wednesday with local leaders at Geekdom, a tech-startup incubator in downtown.

The confirmation that San Antonio will join a short list of so-called “Fiber cities” is nearly 18 months in the making and comes after disappointment that it had been passed over in the first round of announcements.

“The good news today is that Google Fiber is expanding to San Antonio,” said Mark Strama, head of Google Fiber Texas. “It’s a big milestone for Google Fiber — and for San Antonio, I hope.”

Mayor Ivy Taylor, who inherited shepherding the initiative through from former Mayor Julian Castro, said Tuesday that she was “thrilled” when she got that call that Google had decided to expand to San Antonio.

“It’s really been a long haul, a long process of working with them,” she said. “So I think everyone was just really excited — the team, (Chief Technology Officer) Hugh Miller, of course, and the whole team — to finally be at that point, especially knowing how much the residents have been looking at this from two perspectives.

Read more details about the announcement at ExpressNews.com.

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