Wired Magazine on "Google Fiber Losers"

[Emil Volcheck]

Hello, bmorefiber,

This article in Wired Magazine

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/04/google-fiber-losers/

is a call for communities to build their own fiber networks,
since only a few can win the "Google lottery".

Here's the link to the Facebook page for Communities
United for Broadband:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Communities-United-for-Broadband/106218516077372

--Emil

Hey, Google Fiber Losers: Build It Yourselves

Craig Settles has an answer for the 1,095 communities that are not
going to get Google to build a next-generation fiber optic network in
their area once Google chooses a few winners in the coming weeks.

Don’t pout, organize.

"We are harnessing the enthusiasm that Google has generated all over
the country for fiber and channeling that into a path to help those
communities to get the broadband they want," Settles said.

Settles, a broadband consultant, has paired with a North Carolina
advocate Jay Ovittore to launch the Communities United for Broadband,
which they propose as a hub for communities who spent untold hours on
their Google-bandwidth application.

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Emil Volcheck
volc...@acm.org
http://EmilVolcheck.com/