{"id":7879,"date":"2025-09-10T18:34:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/7879\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:34:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T18:34:06","slug":"cedar-park-welcomes-gfiber-for-high-speed-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/7879\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedar Park welcomes GFiber for high-speed internet access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high-speed internet service will kick off construction in Cedar Park with a groundbreaking on Sept. 13.<\/p>\n<p>CEDAR PARK, Texas \u2014 Google Fiber or GFiber will soon be expanding access to its fiber-optic internet service to a new Central Texas community.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, representatives from GFiber and the Cedar Park Chamber of Commerce will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking on the company&#8217;s construction at the intersection of Aster Street and Pecan Wood Drive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/article\/money\/economy\/boomtown-2040\/cedar-park-texas-google-fiber-agreement\/269-285d2f21-906a-4573-848c-cb9dedfbffc1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">will offer 8 gigabit service to both residents<\/a> and business owners in Cedar Park, offering no data caps, equipment fees or annual contracts to Cedar Park. \u00a0GFiber joins several other high-speed internet providers in the Cedar Park area such as EarthLink, Spectrum, and AT&amp;T, among others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In May 2024, the city approved an agreement to allow GFiber to install, maintain and operate its high-speed fiber optic network.<\/p>\n<p>In exchange for the use of public rights-of-way, Google Fiber Texas, LLC will pay a license fee to the City of Cedar Park equitable to 1% of gross revenue.<\/p>\n<p>Boomtown is KVUE&#8217;s series covering the explosive growth in Central Texas. For more Boomtown stories, head to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/boomtown2040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kvue.com\/boomtown2040\">KVUE.com\/Boomtown<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The high-speed internet service will kick off construction in Cedar Park with a groundbreaking on Sept. 13. CEDAR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[85,123,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-7879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}