Google wants to bring its ultra-high-speed internet service to Provo, Utah, the city's mayor

John Curtis announced at a press conference today.

Instead of building new infrastructure, Google plans to acquire the existing iProvo fiber-optic network, a troubled service that the city built in 2004, and then privatized four years later. If the deal is approved, Google will continue to offer the iProvo to existing customers under the Google Fiber brand. "In addition, Google Fiber will commit to upgrade the iProvo network to Gigabit technology," Mayor Curtis wrote on his blog. A vote is scheduled for Tuesday, April 23.

Google would offer similar plans and pricing as it offers in Kansas City. "If the deal is approved and the acquisition closes, we’d offer our Free Internet service (5 Mbps speeds) to every home along the existing Provo network, for a $30 activation fee and no monthly charge for at least seven years," the company's blog post announcing the plan reads.

After the network's operators ran into financial troubles, the City of Provo took back ownership of the iProvo network earlier this year.

After a year long long competition between over 1,000 cities, Google announced in 2011 that Kansas City would be the first to receive the service. The company began rolling out Google Fiber to its first neighborhoods in late 2012. Since then the company has announce two additional cities: Olathe, Kansas and Austin, Texas.

Although Utah may not spring as readily to mind as the Bay area, Seattle or Austin when thinking about tech hubs, the region is in fact home to hundreds of tech companies. The University of Utah in Salt Lake City was home to much pioneering computing research, and was one of the original four nodes of ARPANET, the predecessor to the internet. And, as Google points out, Provo is second in the nation in terms of number of patents filed.