Google Fiber Announcement Delayed

In an e-mail to cities anxious to hear if they have been selected for a Google Fiber trial project, Milo Medin, Google's vice president of access services said the company will delay its decision until early 2011.

The company was originally slated to announce the project locations by the end of the year, but they received an influx of applicants and need more time to go through them.

"To be clear, we're not reopening our selection process but simply need
more time to decide than we had anticipated," the e-mail said.

Google Fiber is an "experimental, ultra-high speed broadband network" that will make Internet connections incredibly fast, according to their website. More than 1,000 communities have expressed an interest in being a test market for the service.

"We're not going to be able to build in every interested community -- our plan is to reach a total of at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people," according to the website.

Cities across the company have been vying for Google's attention in hopes of landing Google Fiber. The town of Topeka, Kan., famously changed its name to Google, Kan., for a month last spring.

In Evanston, more than 2,000 people are members of a Facebook group called "Bring Google Fiber to Evanston, IL."