Google Fiber in Kansas, Olathe, Austin and Provo will cover area with population of 1.7 million

Google will also take over management of internet and television service from Provo’s current network provider, Veracity Networks.
 
The Google Fiber package doesn’t include telephone service, however, and the Chocolate Factory has hinted that it may allow Veracity to keep offering that.
 
In the return for the sweetheart deal, Google will provide city facilities with free gigabit internet service for seven years. Google has also agreed to connect the network to the remaining two-thirds of homes that are not yet wired up to it, in addition to upgrading some of the network infrastructure.
 
"Our fiber is still good, but they have to replace the infrastructure around the fiber. That stuff has been around for years," Provo Deputy Mayor Corey Norman told the Associated Press.
 
The Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce estimates that Google will probably need to invest around $18m to complete these upgrades to the iProvo network – a fraction of the $94m it will have coughed up to build out its Kansas City network by the end of 2013