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Google to test new wireless broadband network in Boulder

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 26: A visitor uses a cell phone in front of the Google logo on September 26, 2012 at the official opening party of the Google offices in Berlin, Germany. Although the American company holds 95% of the German search engine market share and already has offices in Hamburg and Munich, its new offices on the prestigious Unter den Linden avenue are its first in the German capital. The Internet giant has been met with opposition in the country recently by the former president's wife, who has sued it based on search results for her name that she considers derogative. The European Commission has planned new data privacy regulations in a country where many residents opted in to have their homes pixeled out when the company introduced its Street View technology. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)
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BERLIN, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 26: A visitor uses a cell phone in front of the Google logo on September 26, 2012 at the official opening party of the Google offices in Berlin, Germany. Although the American company holds 95% of the German search engine market share and already has offices in Hamburg and Munich, its new offices on the prestigious Unter den Linden avenue are its first in the German capital. The Internet giant has been met with opposition in the country recently by the former president’s wife, who has sued it based on search results for her name that she considers derogative. The European Commission has planned new data privacy regulations in a country where many residents opted in to have their homes pixeled out when the company introduced its Street View technology. (Photo by Adam Berry/Getty Images)
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Boulder missed out on Google Fiber, but now the city will be home to a two-year test of the company’s wireless broadband internet.

Google’s parent, Alphabet, requested authorization from the Federal Communications Commission to test wireless broadband technology in 24 U.S. cities, including Boulder.

Employees, contractors, and “trusted testers” handpicked by Google on a volunteer basis will test drive the service instead of customers or the public, but according to the FCC filing.

The project represents a new approach, using wireless technology to connect users to the internet. Early attempts by the company to lay miles of fiber-optic cable in Austin, Texas, Kansas City, and Provo, Utah, proved to be too expensive, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.

The company is also looking to lease existing networks or partner with cities to operate municipal-owned broadband networks. Boulder is not currently in talks with Google for any private-public broadband partnerships, said Don Ingle, the city’s director of information technology — but the “channels of communication are being kept open.

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