Help Rockville Go Faster! Weigh In To Get Google High Speed Internet Access
Mar 9, 2010 8:56 - 1 Comment
A few months ago, Google announced that it would be experimenting with offering stupendously high-speed Internet access in a handful of communities across the nation. We’re talking 1 gigabit per second connection speeds, which is really freaking fast. I was delighted to learn that Our Fair City, Rockville, MD, >had applied to be one of the test cities. Go, Rockville!
You can do your part to help make this a reality. Google is asking the various cities to make their cases — and for their residents to make their cases too. Just go to this page at Google and fill out a brief survey (should take maybe ten minutes) to help secure our slot. The deadline is March 26, so get on it!
Here’s the official press release from the City:
The City of Rockville is responding to a Google Request for Information (RFI) and needs support from the community for a trial program that will install and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in several communities.
In support of the application for the Fiber for Communities project, residents and community groups are encouraged to visit the Google Web site at http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi and complete a community member survey. Applications and community member surveys are due Friday, March 26.
If the City’s application is successful, the Fiber for Communities project would provide local residents with one of the fastest networks in the nation, with speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, which is more than 100 times faster than most Internet connections.
According to the Google Web site, the project’s goals include the development of “next-generation” applications, testing how and where to build high-speed fiber networks, and operating an “open access” network to give users the choice of different service providers.
Google will offer service on the network, at a competitive price, to between 50,000 and 500,000 users in the selected trial communities.
For more information about the RFI or the Fiber to Communities project, contact Mike Cannon, information and technology director, at 240-314-8162 or [email protected].
Awesome! Was hoping someone would do this…