From PC World: Google Fiber has paused plans to roll out fiber optic cables across a number of U.S. cities, as the company reevaluates its strategy to presumably use mainly wireless to provide high-speed Internet service.
Work on Google Fiber is to continue in in the cities where it has been launched or is under construction, wrote Craig Barratt, senior vice president at Alphabet and CEO of its Access unit, of which Google Fiber is a part. In the “potential Fiber cities” where Google Fiber was still at the stage of exploratory discussions, the project will pause operations.
“In this handful of cities that are still in an exploratory stage, and in certain related areas of our supporting operations, we’ll be reducing our employee base,” wrote Barratt, who under the new dispensation moves to the position of advisor to the venture. A new CEO has not been named.
Google Fiber set about five years ago laying fiber optic cabling to provide high-speed Internet access to a number of cities starting in Kansas City. The project claims its subscriber base and revenue are growing quickly, and it expects that growth to continue. But the company has also run into competition from other broadband players like AT&T and hassles of negotiating local bureaucracy.
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