Google Fiber is alive and expanding to five new states

Despite the fact that Google Fiber's expansion plans have always been deliberately gradual, there was a time when it was announcing new coverage areas on a more regular basis. Now, Dinni Jain, the CEO of Alphabet subsidiary Fiber, has announced Fiber's first growth plans in years.

The firm has been working to link West Des Moines to its network, making it the company's first new state in five years, and will soon begin constructing infrastructure in Des Moines. It announced that it is building a network in Mesa, Arizona, this July, and it just revealed that the service is also available in Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, and Idaho.

According to Reuters, the firm picked its new locations based on where internet speeds are lagging the most. These will be Fiber's main concentration in future years, but it will continue to expand access in cities where it already has a network. "There was a perception 10 years ago that Google Fiber was trying to build the entire country," Jain told Reuters during his first interview as CEO of Fiber.

Because some Alphabet subsidiaries have had to raise cash outside of Google, many people have wondered where Fiber would get the cash for its proposed growth. He refused to disclose the company's financial information or funding resources, but he did say that "At Google Fiber, we intend to establish businesses that will be successful on their own and that is what we aim to do at Google Fiber for sure."

Fiber has been reducing costs in order to lower its typical hundreds of millions of dollars in annual losses owing to construction, trial and subsidy home service over the last several years. It even halted plans for its West Des Moines expansion and concentrated on making its service more accessible throughout metro areas where it already had a network.

Jain's blog post about Fiber's new locations, on the other hand, is optimistic. He claimed that he and his team were "thrilled to be expanding [their] geographical presence once again." He added that while Fiber's attention is currently on the states it has previously introduced, the firm would still love to talk with and support communities who want to establish their own fiber networks.