Google Fiber for Communities: Next steps

The deadline for responses to our request for information has passed. We will announce our target community or communities by the end of the year. In the meantime please visit fiberforcommunities.com to learn how to take action to improve broadband where you live.

Since we announced our plans to build experimental, ultra high-speed broadband networks, the response has been tremendous. Hundreds of communities and hundreds of thousands of individuals across the country have expressed their interest in the project. We're not going to be able to build in every interested community - our plan is to reach a total of at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people - but we hope to learn lessons from this experiment that will help improve Internet access everywhere.

We humbly thank each and every community and individual for taking the time to participate. If one message has come through loud and clear, it's this: people across the country are hungry for better and faster Internet access.

This map displays where the responses were concentrated. Each small dot represents a government response, and each large dot represents locations where more than 1,000 residents submitted a nomination. A list of government responses is available here.