Google Is Bringing Fast Internet to San Francisco

Call it the rapture of the nerds: Google Fiber is coming to San Francisco.

Ultra-fast Internet access will soon reach “some apartments, condos and affordable housing properties” in the West Coast enclave, Michael Slinger, Google Fiber’s director of business operations, wrote in a blog post Feb. 24.

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Even though San Francisco is a thriving center of technology and anchor for Silicon Valley, its homes and businesses don’t enjoy Web access that’s any better than the rest of the U.S. The city of more than 800,000 even lags behind some smaller urban areas that already boast fiber-optic Gigabit connections, which ...