New acquisition shows Google Fiber has its eyes on Boston

Founded in 2003, Webpass offers services is five major markets including the San Francisco Bay Area, San Diego, Chicago, Boston, and Miami, and has over 20,000 customers. In any case Google’s own fiber internet service is well-established and has continued to embrace massive expansion with its customers experiencing super-fast internet connections across the US.

It isn’t available just anywhere, as Webpass focuses primarily on multi-unit residential buildings and businesses. Also, it will help Google Fiber get into the business and residential markets. No financial details of the takeover were disclosed.

It seems like Google plans to expand its Fiber service.

Of particular interest to Google is Webpass’ use of wireless technology to deliver some of its services, an emerging area in high-speed internet delivery. The exact plans or price of the resulting offering is not known, but Barr said that Webpass can speed up the deployment of gigabit internet connections for users across the United States, and Google will aid the gigabit ISP to reach more consumers.

Building fiber internet is an infrastructure headache – expensive, time-consuming – and so San Francisco web devotees continue to pine for the fast stuff with no clear delivery date in sight.

Google Fiber has made quite a few efforts lately to build the Fiber network from scratch in a number of cities.

“Maybe some of us had chosen them [Webpass] so we DIDN’T have all our eggs in your basket”, one Twitter user wrote in response to Google Fiber’s announcement.

The company is also planning to begin testing wireless internet to homes and network integration in November, according to its Kansas City presentation. A Google Fiber spokesperson says that Webpass’s pricing and branding will remain the same after the acquisition.

In Boston, the company is not only up against the main incumbent provider from Comcast Corp., but a host of other services that promise to bring real competition for high-speed Internet service. The tech giant joined hands with other companies to expand Fiber services to a larger market in 2016.