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Google

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has delayed announcing where it plans to install ultra-fast fiber optic Internet access.

More than 1,100 communities expressed interest earlier this year in becoming a part of a Google experiment to build and test broadband networks that the search giant proclaims will be more than 100 times faster than what Americans have today.

Google originally had expected to name its selected communities for the networks by the end of the year, but is pushing back its decision until early 2011.

"While we're moving ahead full steam on this project, we're not quite ready to make that announcement," Google's new vice president of access services, Milo Medin, said in a blog post.

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