The Pittsboro Board of Commissioners voted last week to support the town’s application to Google’s Fiber for Communities experimental program, placing Pittsboro in the running to receive funding for 1-gigabit-per-second, fiber-to-the-home Internet connections — more than 100 times faster than most Internet access across the country.
Google plans to build experimental, ultra high-speed broadband networks to reach at least 50,000 and as many as 500,000 people in communities across the country. Chapel Hill and Cary have also submitted applications to the program.
Overall, hundreds of communities and hundreds of thousands of individuals have applied to the program, according to Google. The company plans to select communities for the program by the end of the year.