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Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds
(www.livescience.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2025
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Do you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?
Wasn't Google Fiber available in like, one town in Kansas? So I suppose yes, it did increase the average speed, but by a very small amount.
Not quite. Google fiber did 2 things: 1) in any market thry entered, they forced an ante speed and 2) they provided a model that a bunch of local coops and/or municipal networks could follow (and did)
They are currently in 28 markets in the US.
A good point for Google
I feel they may have been something of a catalyst that got other providers to start upping the speed. At this point, a lot of service providers offer at least 1 gig download speeds, with fiber being synchronous often. Some places offer up to 10 gigs to residential.