Google Fiber for Communities - Let's Get it Here in Louisville!
Google Press Release
Google is planning to launch an experiment that we hope will make Internet access better and faster for everyone. We plan to test ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more trial locations across the country. Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.
From now until March 26th, we're asking interested municipalities to provide us with information about their communities through a Request for information (RFI), which we'll use to determine where to build our network.
Help IgLou get this to Louisville. Make a comment with your support and we'll forward it onto the Mayor's office. Or contact the Mayor directly at the links below.
Mayor Jerry Abramson http://www.louisvilleky.gov/Mayor/contactusmayor.htm
Mayoral Economic Development Department http://www.louisvilleky.gov/Mayor/contact-btraughber.htm
Metro call concerns- http://www.louisvilleky.gov/MetroCall/contactmetrocall.htm
Nominate Louisville at the link below.
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/options
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Sounds good, but at what cost?
Yeah, this all sounds good; but what will be the cost to consumers for such high class service? I already pay $30 per month for my 1Mb/s DSL service, and to be honest, I'd like to reduce my expenses rather than increase them. These new technologies are all great, but like health care costs, few of us can afford the latest and greatest. And like cable television, the internet is becoming more of an advertisement delivery system than the "Information Super Highway" we were promised years ago. Unless there is a reduction in cost to the consumer, it all just sounds like more bells and whistles we can barely afford.
Cost
We have found that with greater competition usually comes lower prices.
Google fiber-to-the-home for Louisville
Please support the effort to get this for our community. I live in the Fern Creek/Jeffersontown area and am at the outermost reach for DSL through the phone company. My connectivity and internet speed capacities are not completely reliable and are interfering with times when I have to work from home. The large files that I work with do not always make it to the office quickly or reliably which impacts my efficiency to work and requires me to travel 30 miles to/from the office just to run a simple application with a large amount of data. The impact on the environment and cost of personal/family time would improve if I had a more reliable and faster internet service that this project is promising. I would appreciate your support in bringing this to the Louisville Metro area in general and especially to my community.
James Kuchenbrod
502.689.1871
Ultra-speed internet.
Will it be offered just in Jefferson County or other counties as well. Will it be via cable (hopefully) and not telephone lines? Would like more information. Thank you.
Google will decide their
Google will decide their ultimate geographic investment and a lot of that depends on cities giving access to public right of ways. It would NOT be using cable nor phone lines, but Google's own fiber network.
Google's Fiber Network
How would a home owner connect to that network? Would they have to pay extra to have fiber lines ran to their home?
Cost to run fiber to home.
As far as we know there will be no cost to hook up directly to your home.
Many questions are answered on their website at the link below.
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/faq