Google is ready to get its super-fast broadband deployment back on track after a rather quiet 2014. The search giant has announced four new cities will receive 1 Gbps internet: Charlotte, NC; Raleigh-Durham, NC; Atlanta, GA and Nashville, TN.

Several smaller cities will receive the fiber deployment. It looks like North Carolina will receive a lot of support across the state in the next few years, potentially due to deals with the state representatives to deploy Google Fiber cheaper.

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Google Fiber will be offered in three packages: a free 5 Mbps option (US$300 installation fee); a 1 Gbps broadband option for US$80 per month or a 1 Gbps broadband option with TV for US$120 per month. Both come with free installation.

Similar to previous deployments, Google will first offer fiber to the most active neighborhoods, and will work on a popularity basis. This has put the fiber service in hot water due to the cherry picking of neighborhoods based on house pricing and average wage.

Google seems committed to bringing fiber to every interested neighborhood, however, and will begin deployment in the four cities next year, even though the timeline to completion may be over four years.

Kansas City, MO, Austin, TX and Provo, UT already have Google Fiber installed. Apart from Provo, deployment is far from complete, with several neighborhoods still awaiting super-fast broadband.

Google is competing with AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner Cable, and appears to be winning in these three markets. Google has also started a trend of revolt against telecoms, with several community driven broadband projects started in the past five years.

In a recent open letter to the Federal Communications Commission, Google also advised the agency to reclassify broadband under Title II 'common carrier', for Google to get better access to broadband utilities currently limited by the telecom providers.

While the deployment goes on, Google might announce a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) utilizing T-Mobile and Sprint's mobile networks. Reports say Google will announce this in the spring, with affordable price plans nationwide.

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