
According to J.P. Morgan’s State of Broadband report released Friday, “The speed race is on and customers are taking higher speed tiers as 1 Gbps marketing has been relatively effective, despite few customers actually needing that level of service.”
And the 13-year-old Google Fiber initiative remains on the leading edge of this competition, launching for the first time new symmetrical 5 Gigabits per second and 8 Gbps symmetrical-speed tiers in Mesa, Arizona.