Google Launches Google Fiber for Communities Site
Google Launches Google Fiber for Communities Site
Posted 07/13/2010 at 6:20pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Google began accepting applications from towns and cities back in February to be part of their new high-speed fiber broadband initiative. While the winning municipalities won’t be announce until later this year, Google is looking to help everyone get some faster internet access. To these ends, the search giant is launching the Google Fiber for Communities site.
This isn’t going to be some sort of magical site to get that sweet, sweet Google fiber, but rather a site to help communities get there themselves. Google said in the blog post that they were inspired to do this after seeing the 1,100 community applications and 200,000 individual responses to their fiber initiative. It's nice, but we'd rather have Google do it for us.
The site offers information about federal legislation and zoning that affect fiber deployment. They also link to various organizations that could be of help. We would like to see better connection become common place. Could the Google Fiber for Communities site help us get there?
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mesiah
July 13, 2010 at 11:00pm
This would be great for towns to get together and implement their own fiber network, but we have seen what happens when someone actually tries to do it. They get cock blocked with law suits by telecoms. The telecoms tie them up in court long enough to get a bandaid in place and keep the public project from being able to fund its self. For those that don't know what I am talking about, here is an article about it:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/want-50mbps-internet-in-your-town-threaten-to-roll-out-your-own.ars
The greed of our telecoms / isps knows no bounds.
Ntldr
July 14, 2010 at 7:23am
Not all Telecoms and ISPs are like that. There are some that with out prompting from the community have started rolling out fiber networks. I work for one and we have 1 town fully outfitted, we have also just got apporved for a a grant to completely overbuild a new town that only has dialup from ATT and a few others and that has been all they can get to them until now. And we have three to four other towns that are mostly fiber and we are working in phases to finish out the towns that do not have it and once that is done we will be expanding to more towns/rural customers.
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