Live blog: Google Fiber comes to Austin, Texas

By Stacey Higginbotham April 09, 2013: 11:43 AM ET

(gigaom.com) -- Anticipation has been building deep in the heart of Texas as Google prepares to announce that Austin has become the second city to take part in its Google Fiber project to bring gigabit internet connections to the masses. It’s now official: the formal event kicked off at 9am PT, and I’ll be live-blogging the proceedings here.

In the meantime, check out our stories on what this could mean for Austin and broadband development in general.

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