No Google Fiber news today; Raleigh exec ‘still expecting year-end decision’

No commitment from Google today to bring Google Fiber to the Triangle but work continues toward that possibility.

Gail Roper, chief information officer for the City of Raleigh, says she is “still expecting a year-end decision” from Google about whether the Internet giant will choose the Triangle for a Google Fiber network deployment.

“We are still working with Google on an agenda of items and processes,” Roper said in an interview Tuesday morning at a fiber conference in Raleigh.

Jill Szuchmacher, director of Business Development for Google Fiber, is among the speakers at the Fiber to the Home event.

AT&T on Monday announced the formal launch of its own gigabit Internet network in parts of the Triangle as part of the North Carolina Next Generation Network.

“No announcements today,” the Google executive said, noting that news will become before the end of the year.

Raleigh and other parts of the Triangle are on a short list of sites being considered by Google Fiber, which has already launched service in Kansas City; Provo, Utah; and Austin, Texas.

Google and AT&T are competing head-to-head in Austin.

Google also would face competition from Frontier Communications, which recently launched its own fiber service in Durham and Durham County.