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Google Fiber will soon have a new tool in its toolbox to bring ultra-fast 1Gbps broadband service to millions of people in cities throughout the US.
On Wednesday Webpass, an inteet service provider that uses point-to-point wireless to deliver high-speed broadband to apartment buildings and businesses, said it was being bought by Google for an undisclosed amount. Neither company has disclosed details of the transaction, but the deal is expected to close this summer after regulatory approval.
Webpass uses a combination of rooftop wireless networks coected to high speed fiber coections to deliver broadband coections that it claims can be as fast as 1 gigabit per second. The company is already operating in five major markets, including San Francisco Bay area, San Diego, Miami, Chicago, and Boston.
Google Fiber, which is a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, aounced earlier this year plans to deploy its 1Gbps broadband service in San Francisco. And it has already listed Chicago and San Diego as potential future Google Fiber cities. The acquisition of Webpass should help accelerate those plans and could help the company push into other cities with its broadband service.
"By joining forces, we can accelerate the deployment of superfast Inteet coections for customers across the US," Webcast president and founder Charles Barr said in a blog post aouncing the deal with Google. "Webpass will remain focused on rapid deployment of high speed Inteet coections for residential and commercial buildings, primarily using point-to-point wireless,"
Since 2010 when Google first aounced plans to build a fiber city, the company has challenged phone companies and cable operators to deploy affordable ultra-high speed broadband. But the build-out has been relatively slow. Google started in Kansas City and now offers service in two other cities, Austin and Provo, Utah. It's building service in Nashville, and Atlanta and has several other cities on its roadmap.
Building a fiber-based network is expensive and time-consuming. Streets need to be dug up to lay the fiber infrastructure. By contrast, point-to-point wireless coections that use high-frequency spectrum or airwaves deliver high-speed access at a fraction of the cost of using fiber, because all that's needed are radios and receivers mounted atop buildings. And these networks can be set-up within days rather than the weeks and months that is often required with a fiber deployment. While there are technical challenges associated with these wireless networks, they've been used for years to deliver dedicated data coections to businesses in cities like New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco.
Webpass is among a growing list of providers extending this technology to residential customers. Like Google, it is offering high-speed service at affordable prices, selling a 100Mbps to 1Gbps service for $60 a month. Google Fiber's 1Gbps fiber broadband offer is $70 a month. Barr said the news is good for its existing customers because the companies share a similar vision of offering "high quality Inteet coection to as many people as possible."
"Google Fiber's resources will enable Webpass to grow faster and reach many more customers than we could as a standalone company," Barr said.
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