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No guarantees Fiber is coming. But it means Google is serious about evaluating the OKC market. A lot of it depends on how much the city is willing to work with Google to minimize red tape and move things forward in a timely manner.
If it gets the green light it may also mean the surrounding suburbs would have a good shot at getting it. It certainly would be a feather in OKCs cap.
Even if it doesn't happen, you would hope that the other providers in the market pull their heads out and update infrastructure, service, and provide better speed/options.Obviously you would know more than most. On OKC's end there won't be much red tape. The city is very much committed to get this done. I think I read no city has been put on the exploration list and hasn't gotten it yet.
If this happens it is a huge deal for OKC when you look at the other cities this has gone too.
Don't get too excited, yet. It's been absolutely, positively, definitely coming to Austin for a few years. Only a few neighborhoods have it. It's a lot harder to install than it would appear.
Existing infrastructure is largely unmapped so they destroy quite a bit of water, gas, sewer and electrical lines along the way which have to be repaired as they go. People are pissed about the private property that has to be torn up and if a water main is hit, for example, the whole neighborhood comes unglued and decides they don't want the fiber after all, but they can't stop it.
Sooooo, it'll be great someday, but it's liable to be a painful process.
The DC in Pryor has been finished for awhile. They have been adding onto it lately. They added a 4 or 5 story building recently. I kniw there was a rumor about them moving a large number of employees in. I assume for something besides the Data Center. They were supposedly looking for a large piece of land to make a small community by the DC.
Gig is coming to OKC regardless if Google ever comes. And I will be willing to bet a large sum that Google will not be the first to offer gig in OKC.