The key to the increasing number of gigabit...
The key to the increasing number of gigabit broadband networks in the U.S. has been “enlightened local leadership,” Gig.U President Blair Levin said at the Web Summit in Dublin Thursday, according to his written remarks (http://bit.ly/1bGaWXp). Such leadership “recognizes how…
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the quality of the network their community has 10 years from now will affect everything they do and everything they do today affects the quality of the network they will have 10 years from now,” Levin said. A “desert” just a few years ago, America how has a dozen Gig.U communities moving forward, municipal gigabit service in Chattanooga and Lafayette, and Google Fiber “capturing the imagination of many,” he said. Incumbents like CenturyLink, AT&T and Time Warner Cable now look favorably upon upgraded networks, he said. “It is still early in the transition to the digital economy but the presence of such networks will accelerate innovations in how we solve society’s problems with smarter use of chips, bits and bandwidth."