New glimmers of competition are coming to the Internet fiber-to-the-home business in the United States: Google is branching out from its Kansas City experiment and staking a claim in Austin, Texas.

The company has  been saying that its surprisingly cheap one-gigabit-per-second fiber service in Kansas City (see “When Will the Rest of us Get Google Fiber?), which provided about 100 times the speed for around the same price as the average service in the United States, was more than a PR stunt. The new actions, announced here, back up those words.

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