Google throughout the weekend provided word on the current state of the company’s plan to perform a limited trial of gigabit Internet service in the United States.
The company says it has received more than 1100 responses from local governments, as well as more than 194,000 individual responses to its February 10 request for information (RFI).
Now, Google says, it will spend the next several months weeding through applicants by visiting the strongest candidates and speaking with their civic leaders.
“Of course, 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 with this experiment,” Google wrote in a blog update on Friday. “Wherever we decide to build, we hope to learn lessons that will help improve Internet access everywhere. After all, you shouldn’t have to jump into frozen lakes and shark tanks to get ultra high-speed broadband.”
A target community (or communities) are expected to be announced by the end of the year.
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