After pausing network expansion and cutting some of its initial promises in 2016, Google Fiber hit the play button again.

After building fiber networks in West Des Moines and Des Moines, Iowa, and most recently in Mesa, Arizona, Google Fiber now has its sights set on cities in several Midwestern states.

Google Fiber CEO Dinni Jain promised in a blog post: “If you’ve been following Google Fiber, you know we’ve been busy lately. And it’s even busier to handle Google Fiber’s business.”

Jain was an executive at cable operators such as Time Warner TV and Insight Communications. He said Google Fiber has been in talks with city leaders in five states, Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Idaho in recent months, with the goal of bringing the service Google Fiber’s FTTH to their communities.

Jain did not identify which cities are being explored or come up with any specific timeline, but noted that these states will be its main focus for growth in the coming years while they continue to expand in their current metro areas. Jain added that Google Fiber will share more details about the new cities and “faster speeds” in the coming months.

Google Fiber’s current high-end service offers 2Gbit/s downlink and 1Gbit/s uplink for $100 per month. Google Fiber has all but eliminated its own IPTV management service, instead promoting several virtual multi-channel video programming distribution (vMVPD) services, including DirecTV Stream, FuboTV, Sling TV and Google’s own YouTube TV.

Jain also opened the door to communities interested in building their own fiber networks, noting that Google Fiber already has a civic-centric model in cities like Huntsville, Alabama, and West Des Moines. “We will continue to find ways to support similar efforts,” wrote Jain, who took the helm of Google’s access business unit in 2018.

Here are the ongoing and planned network and service deployments of Google Fiber using FTTP or its fixed wireless platform Webpass: