[jedc]

That's separate from the Google Fiber for Communities project. I haven't seen any news on that since all the applications were submitted.

I'm sure the selection / due diligence / contracting process is ridiculously complex, though! I would assume it would be a while before anything was announced.

[wmf]

My impression is that the Stanford project is the first (or perhaps zeroth) phase of the Google Fiber for Communities project. They can probably learn a lot rolling out "minimum viable fiber" to ~100 homes before they try to do thousands. It wouldn't seem to make sense for Google to have multiple competing fiber projects.