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Metro Atlanta areas picked for high speed Google Internet

Tom Lowry, left, head of the Google Atlanta office, shakes hands with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed at the conclusion of a press conference announcing the launch of Google Fiber in Atlanta, one of four cities also including Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, and Nashville on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT Tom Lowry, left, head of the Google Atlanta office, shakes hands with Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed at the conclusion of a press conference announcing the launch of Google Fiber in Atlanta, one of four cities also including Charlotte, Raleigh-Durham, and Nashville on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Curtis Compton) MARIETTA DAILY OUT; GWINNETT DAILY POST OUT; LOCAL TELEVISION OUT; WXIA-TV OUT; WGCL-TV OUT

By Associated Press January 27, 2015 1 min read

ATLANTA (AP) – Google plans to bring its ultra-fast fiber optic Internet service to the city of Atlanta and eight communities in the metro area.

The company announced Tuesday that the nine Atlanta metro areas cities are part of a larger expansion in the Southeast, along with Nashville, Tennessee and Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte, North Carolina.

Each community provided Google with information about utilities, permitting and other expected issues for design and construction. That process is just getting started and expected to take years.

Google Fiber Marketing Director Scott Levitan says every mile of the new network needs to be planned and will take hundreds of trucks and workers.

The metro areas chosen are: Atlanta, Avondale Estates, Brookhaven, College Park, Decatur, East Point, Hapeville, Sandy Springs and Smyrna.