Google Fiber
Iowa City 1up
Nominate Iowa City, IA for Google's just announced Fiber For Communities. Iowa City, known worldwide as one of the best cities for business, living, retirement, and education, is the perfect place for Google to bring fiber-optic 1Gbps fiber internet service.
Google Fiber would enhance not just your browsing speeds, but it would give our university a huge research advantage by being able to tap directly into google's Open Access network. Vast data mining, processing, and transport projects and all kinds of cool research applications would suddenly become viable for the U of I. No matter who you are, Google Fiber will be good for you.
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Iowa City is a thriving, successful community filled with bright individuals, and enough of a mix of residents that it would give Google the perfect sample of regular users as well as tech-savvy folks who will be able to grasp the new technologies that come with 1Gbps internet.- #5 in Nation - Base Places To Live (Sperling's 3/2007)
- #9 - Best Small Metro Area for Business (Forbes 2009)
- #4 in Nation - Public Schools (Expansion Management Magazine)
- Among Best Places To Expand Business (Expansion Management Magazine)
- #10 in Nation - Smart Places To Live (Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine 2006)
- Best Midwestern Town (Outdoor Magazine 2007)
- #10 - America's Smartest Cities (Forbes 2008)
- Top 10 Up & Coming Tech Cities (Forbes 3/2008)
Why Do We Want Google Fiber?
Not only would 1Gbps be bad ass, it would enhance our community by unbelievable amounts. We would swiftly jump from "Top 10 Up & Coming Tech Cities" to the Top 3. Qwest offers an abysmal 7Mbps in Iowa City - Google Fiber is One Hundred Forty Six Times Faster. Google Fiber is 51.2 times faster than Mediacom's "20Mbps" service - but you'd never notice, because Mediacom internet never actually works!Google Fiber would enhance not just your browsing speeds, but it would give our university a huge research advantage by being able to tap directly into google's Open Access network. Vast data mining, processing, and transport projects and all kinds of cool research applications would suddenly become viable for the U of I. No matter who you are, Google Fiber will be good for you.
