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Google Fiber is Google's fiber-to-the-premises service in the United States, providing broadband internet and cable television to a small and slowly increasing number of locations. As of March 2015, Google Fiber had 27,000 television subscribers. The service was first introduced to the Kansas City metropolitan area,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/ultra-high-speed-broadband-is-coming-to.html )〕 including 20 Kansas City area suburbs within the first 3 years. Initially proposed as an experimental project, Google Fiber was announced as a viable business model on December 12, 2012, when Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt stated "It's actually not an experiment, we're actually running it as a business," at the ''New York Times DealBook Conference. Google Fiber announced expansion to Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah in April 2013, and subsequent expansions in 2014 and 2015 to Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Nashville, Salt Lake City, and San Antonio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Google Fiber plans service in San Antonio, its biggest city yet )〕 On August 10, 2015, Google announced its intention to restructure the company, moving less central services and products into a new umbrella corporation, Alphabet Inc. As part of this restructuring plan, Google Fiber would become a subsidiary of Alphabet, and may become part of the "Access and Energy" business unit. ==Services== Google Fiber offers three options: a free internet option, a 1 Gbit/s internet option, and an option including television service (in addition to the 1 Gbit/s internet). The internet service includes one terabyte of Google Drive service; the television service includes a two terabyte DVR in addition to the Google Drive. The DVR can record up to eight live television shows simultaneously. In addition, television service will also stream live program content on iPad and Android tablet computers. Google offers several different service plans to their customers: Google also offers free Google Fiber internet connectivity in each of its markets to select public and affordable housing properties, focusing near Cheyenne, Wy and Washington, D.C.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bringing Internet access to public housing residents )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Google Fiber」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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