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Google Fiber is expanding the company's vine web past a small Internet service provider web pass offers high speed fiber Internet to a number of cities including Boston Chicago Miami and San Francisco web path says it has tens of thousands of customers the deal is expected to close in the summer assuming it gets approved by regulators how much Google Fiber paid is not known what past services businesses and apartment complexes these are areas where Google Fiber wants to gain a foothold web pass also has a wireless component that could be very useful for future expansions the introduction of Google Fiber caused an upward back in 2010 Cities campaigns to be the first to get Google's crazy fast internet service the city of Topeka Kansas temporarily renamed itself Google Rancho Cucamonga California call itself Rancho Google manga in the end Kansas City Kansas was the first city to get Google Fiber the service provides gigabit internet for $70 per month that's an insane amount of speed for the money over on Comcast you get about a hundred and fifty megabits per second at about 83 dollars per month a gigabit is a thousand megabits think about that fiber Internet is so valuable a new study by the fiber to the home council says it increases rental values by 8% property values also increase 2.8 percent if that place is served by fiber internet so fiber is good for everybody except if you're competing with Google Fiber that's it for this tech news update I'm Aya's Akhtar and you can stay on top of the biggest stories at cnet.com slash