6 clues that Google Fiber is coming to Charlotte

Charlotte’s known for a while it’s on the shortlist to get the high-speed, high-capacity internet service. Unless it’s seriously toying with us, it looks like a certainty CLT will be the next Google Fiber city:

(1) Google Fiber last week sent out “save the date” invites for a mystery evening event this Wednesday. City officials, a bigwig at Queens and Charlotte Hearts Gigabit got one. CharlotteFive just got invited to a Google press conference today via an extraordinarily boring email (I guess we’re big time now). We hope they give our free mouse pads or pens. No, we didn’t get an invite to Wednesday’s “evening event.” Our email invite:

(2) Law firm Moore & Van Allen has incorporated a N.C. entity for Google Fiber.

(3) Google Fiber has posted employment ads looking for a sales strategy and operations manager in Charlotte.

Google Fiber looks promising for Charlotte – they just posted this position for Sales and Marketing: http://t.co/ujeiqlhQM2

— DC74 Data Centers (@DC74datacenter) January 6, 2015

 (4) On the Google Fiber homepage, there’s a picture of the Queen City skyline.

Charlotte skyline displayed on @googlefiber home page! http://t.co/w6tXJ68ujO — Alan Fitzpatrick (@AFitzpatrick1) January 26, 2015

//><!--(5) Competitors smell trouble: Time Warner Cable and AT&T have announced plans to bring faster Internet to Charlotte.//--><!

I may be lining up to give Google my money soon and I’ll be happy about it. http://t.co/5JToBKd0tn — Mike Persinger (@mikepersinger) January 24, 2015

//><!--(6) Twitter is abuzz. Enough said.//--><!

When I saw the save the date from Google about a Google Fiber launch in Charlotte http://t.co/4xHagN1FO7 — Joshua Mauldin (@joshuamauldin) January 23, 2015

Please be true @googlefiber . We are sitting on pins and (potential) fiber here in Charlotte. http://t.co/QALptuSh3D — Bill Baker (@webaker) January 23, 2015

. @googlefiber you should come chill in Charlotte we have @Bojangles1977 and @NoDaBrewing — ML (@cashmoneybrkfst) January 23, 2015

This story was originally published January 27, 2015 at 1:02 AM with the headline "6 clues that Google Fiber is coming to Charlotte."