[Cialug] Fwd: City of Ankeny: Ankeny has caught the Google bug; intends to compete for Google ultra high-speed broadband opportunity

[Matt Stanton]

Yeah, but the lottery ticket mentality is what google is looking for.  
They want the whole damn city to be buying fiber internet from them, 
because competing with existing phone and cable providers is a pain in 
the ass.  If the city council backs you, then you can build the 
infrastructure on the fast-track, too, instead of having to wait months 
for them to call fifteen votes with community blahblahblah at council 
meetings before you 'might' be approved.

Sure, they'll have to deal with that later, because it can't continue 
being a members-only test market ploy, but if the next town over has 
google fiber, and your town doesn't, guess where all the kids and 
techies are going to move?  Google has always been good at marketing 
their stuff.  If you can get over the fact that they spy on you enough 
to know everything about you, their stuff is useful and works.

On 3/24/2010 6:56 PM, Dave Weis wrote:
> I wish these cities would be serious about providing bandwidth for their residents instead of the 'lottery ticket' mentality that Google has caused.
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