Google herald Tuesday that it is “ pause ” its Fiber operations in ten city . Google Fiber will remain in cities that Google has already pose the infrastructure for , but Alphabet is redact a halt on succeeding development . Google will also be laying off 9 % of its Fiber team , agree toArs Technica . The chief executive officer of Google Access , Craig Barratt , is also stepping down .

What is Google Fiber , you ask ? Surprisingly enough , it is not the technical school giant ’s answer to Soylent — although a in high spirits technical school breakfast cereal grass designed to get your intestines going should be yell Google Fiber . It is high - speed roughage oculus cyberspace , which is something the commonwealth desperatelyneeds . Google is putting a halt on operations in the observe cities , meaning these are where the layoffs will be happening :

Chicago , Illinois

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Dallas , Texas

Jacksonville , Florida

Los Angeles , California

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Oklahoma City , Oklahoma

Phoenix , Arizona

Portland , Oregon

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San Diego , California

San Jose , California

Tampa , Florida

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Here ’s what Barrattwroteabout the changes :

These change to our business and engineering will have some contiguous conditional relation . Some of our effort will remain unaltered , but others will be touch on . In terms of our be step , in the cities where we ’ve launched or are under construction , our work will uphold . For most of our ‘ likely Fiber cities’—those where we ’ve been in explorative discussions — we’re going to pause our operations and offices while we refine our approach …

In this smattering of cities that are still in an explorative level , and in sealed related to areas of our supporting military operation , we ’ll be reducing our employee bag .

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In August , Alphabet CEO Larry PagerecommendedCraig Barratt cut his staff in half , get along on the cad of a study that the party is shift its focus to wireless engineering science . Seems like Google Fiber may hold the same fate as Verizon FiOS ( defective ) .

https://gizmodo.com/after-billions-in-subsidies-the-final-verizon-fios-map-1682854728

As we all know , too much Fiber and everything turns to shit .

Photo: Jae C. Hong

[ GoogleviaArs Technica ]

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