Google Fiber Announcement

Google Fiber announces Austin sign-up dates and first neighborhoods to get service

Google Fiber Announcement

Google Fiber announces Austin sign-up dates and first neighborhoods to get service

Google Fiber announced Wednesday that Austinites will be able to sign up for the service in early December. For now, only neighborhoods south and southeast of Lady Bird Lake are included in the service area.

According to information provided by Google, the neighborhoods in the sign-up zone include areas south of the lake, north of William Cannon Drive, west of I-35 and east of Mopac. Not included are Zilker Park, the Barton Creek Greenbelt and Sunset Valley.

Some neighborhoods east of I-35 will also have access to Google Fiber. Included in the initial service map are areas south of Oltorf Road and north of 183, as well as a swath of East Austin located south of William Cannon Drive.

Google Fiber, which is led by former Texas State Representative Mark Strama, initially announced the launch of its gigabit Internet service in April 2013. Since then, there has been a collective, city-wide clamoring for information. CultureMap will continue to update readers as more neighborhoods become Google Fiber-ready.

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4 Austin companies make Fortune's list of most innovative for 2025

Austin is home to some of the most innovative companies in Texas. File photo

Four Austin companies have been named to Fortune’s third annual list of America’s Most Innovative Companies, joining another 21 from the state of Texas.

The group of 300 companies nationwide was rated based on production innovation, process innovation, and innovation culture, according to Fortune. In partnership with Statista, the magazine considered IP portfolios, employee, expert and customer opinions; and many other factors.

The four companies headquartered in Austin, and their rankings are:

No. 6 — Oracle
No. 11 — Tesla
No. 14 — Dell Technologies
No. 219 — TTEC Holdings

While many of the top-rated companies fell into the tech sector, Fortune reports that health care companies made up the largest portion of the 2025 list. Sixty-three honorees fell into the health care category.

Dallas-Fort Worth claimed the largest number of Texas companies on the list. Houston was home to the second-most with eight hailing from the Bayou City. Austin is home to only four of the companies on the list, however, companies from the Capital City ranked higher on average, with Oracle, Tesla and Dell Technologies claiming the top three spots for the state. H-E-B was the one company to represent San Antonio.

Here's how all the Texas companies fared:

No. 35 — Houston Methodist
No. 37 — AT&T
No. 52 — SpaceX
No. 54 — ExxonMobil
No. 59 — Texas Instruments
No. 89 — Charles Schwab
No. 91 — McKesson
No. 113 — Jacobs Solutions
No. 125 — Baylor Scott & White Health
No. 137 — NRG Energy
No. 158 — Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
No. 165 — Frontier Communications
No. 169 — BMC Software
No. 175 — Texas Children’s Hospital
No. 201— H-E-B
No. 210 — CBRE Group
No. 223 — GameStop
No. 227 — Sysco
No. 251 — American Airlines Group
No. 268 — Chevron
No. 271 — Caterpillar

California-based tech conglomerate Alphabet Inc. topped the list for the third year in a row, and California companies again represented the majority of companies on the list, according to Fortune. Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple, IBM and Salesforce made up the top five, of which three are headquartered in California.

The 2025 group had a median revenue of $22 billion over the last 12 months, according to Fortune. See the full report here.

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This story originally appeared on our sister site, InnovationMap.

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