Google Fiber kills TV service, focuses on broadband and YouTube TV

Enlarge / The YouTube TV logo before the MLS regular season match between Real Salt Lake and Seattle Sounders on April 06, 2019, at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington. (credit: Getty Images | Icon Sportswire )

Google Fiber will no longer offer cable-style TV service to new customers, but it will continue selling broadband and urge customers to sign up for streaming video plans such as YouTube TV.

"The best TV is already online," and the only thing customers need to get TV is "fast, fair, reliable Internet," Google Fiber said in an announcement yesterday. "So, as of today, Google Fiber will no longer offer a linear TV product to new customers."

Existing customers who already subscribe to Google Fiber TV can continue to use the service. New customers can buy Google Fiber broadband on its own or in a bundle with Google's YouTube TV, which is similar to cable TV but is provided entirely over the Internet and works with any Internet provider. YouTube TV costs $50 a month and provides live TV from more than 70 channels.

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