Not yet... but we should apply.
We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
Here is the info:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/ ... ental.html
Here is where to sign up.
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi
I would think downtown St. Louis could be a very high potential.
-Municipality buildings are based downtown.
-Webster University
-Middle Income Residential lofts
-Lower Income Residential town homes in Columbus Square
-Relatively small area to focus on.
-Hopefully it can be large enough to expand to centralwestend/dogtown/Grand, etc.
Now, the RFI would need to include all these aspects and I say even through in the New UrbanStl and how we could leverage new features such as streaming downtown video if all had super fast internet.
They have 2 groups: One for Community, One for Govt. I say we try to combine the two so we have better odds!
What does everyone think? We could even start up the process right here. Deadline ends March 26th.
We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
Here is the info:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/ ... ental.html
Here is where to sign up.
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi
I would think downtown St. Louis could be a very high potential.
-Municipality buildings are based downtown.
-Webster University
-Middle Income Residential lofts
-Lower Income Residential town homes in Columbus Square
-Relatively small area to focus on.
-Hopefully it can be large enough to expand to centralwestend/dogtown/Grand, etc.
Now, the RFI would need to include all these aspects and I say even through in the New UrbanStl and how we could leverage new features such as streaming downtown video if all had super fast internet.
They have 2 groups: One for Community, One for Govt. I say we try to combine the two so we have better odds!
What does everyone think? We could even start up the process right here. Deadline ends March 26th.
