{"id":998178,"date":"2026-03-13T10:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998178"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:26:06","slug":"google-to-combine-gfiber-with-astound-broadband-to-form-new-independent-fibre-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/13\/google-to-combine-gfiber-with-astound-broadband-to-form-new-independent-fibre-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to combine GFiber with Astound Broadband to form new independent fibre provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that it will combine GFiber with Astound Broadband in a deal backed by infrastructure investment firm Stonepeak. The tech giant, which is owned by Alphabet, is taking this action to establish a separate fiber internet provider with a wider national network reach. As per the agreement, Alphabet will remain a significant minority shareholder in the combined company, while Stonepeak will hold a majority stake. According to the companies, the deal is meant to help expand fiber broadband services and supply more funding to accelerate network expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Google announced in a blog post that the existing GFiber executive team will continue to lead the combined business. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced that it will combine GFiber with Astound Broadband in a deal backed by infrastructure investment firm Stonepeak. The tech giant, which is owned by Alphabet, is taking this action to establish a separate fiber internet provider with a wider national network reach. As per the agreement, Alphabet will remain a significant minority shareholder in the combined company, while Stonepeak will hold a majority stake. According to the companies, the deal is meant to help expand fiber broadband services and supply more funding to accelerate network expansion. Google announced in a blog post that the existing GFiber executive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}