AT&T has chosen Lawrence as one of the Kansas communities in which it will roll out new super-fast gigabit Internet service to businesses, the company announced Wednesday.

Lawrence joins Coffeyville, Dodge City, Hutchinson, Kansas City, Pittsburg, Topeka and Wichita, where the gigabit service is now available.

Gigabit service is the same type of high-speed broadband service that Google Fiber has received much attention for providing in parts of the Kansas City market. Google Fiber offers its gigabit services to residential customers, while the new Lawrence AT&T program is limited to businesses.

Chris Lester, a spokesman for AT&T, said the service is available only at office locations that are properly wired for the gigabit service. But Lester said the company’s fiber network is extensive enough that businesses across Lawrence likely can receive the service if their office locations are properly equipped.

“It is not really a neighborhood by neighborhood type of issue with the business service,” Lester said. “It is more about whether the building has the proper fiber installed.”

The gigabit service is being touted as a major improvement over current broadband speeds. AT&T estimates that with gigabit service a business can download 8,000 pages of text documents in one second, or can back up a 1 terabyte hard drive in 2.5 hours.

Mike Scott, who is president of AT&T Kansas and also a Lawrence resident, said AT&T has invested about $850 million in wireless and wireline networks in Kansas since 2013, which has made the gigabit offerings possible.