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Google halting fibre rollout amid changes

telecom | 10/26/2016 4:47 pm EDT

Alphabet Inc. announced it will pause its fibre rollout to potential cities amid changes that have claimed its broadband division’s CEO.  Craig Barratt, CEO of Google Access, announced on the company’s fibre blog Tuesday that Google is undergoing changes to “refine our approaches” and will be pausing the rollout to additional cities. He said work will continue where they’ve already launched fibre or where it’s still under construction.  At least eight cities in the United States were slated as potential fibre cities, according to...