On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Doran L. "Fozz" Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 10 February 2010, Bart Whiteley proclaimed: >> Google is interested in deploying fiber-to-the-home broadband with 1 >> gigabit per second speeds to selected communities in order to >> experiment with next-generation broadband applications and deployment >> techniques. [1] >> >> They have put out a request for information (RFI) [2] to identify >> interested communities. Since Provo already has the fiber build-out >> (more or less) complete, I wonder if Provo would be a compelling >> candidate for Google to consider. Perhaps they could partner with >> Veracity (the current stewards of iProvo). > > You mean Broadweave. > >> Google is requesting information from both local governments, as well >> as community groups. [3] I think PLUG, as a community group, should >> respond to the RFI. > > iProvo is already under the management of a private entity. I'm not personally > aware of their finances, coverage, service profiles or anything like that. > > However, UTOPIA is in a mess. If Google is looking to see how their immense > pockets could help an existing project and explore Fiber To The Premise at the > same time, getting involved with UTOPIA is definitely the way to go. UTOPIA's > scope is much larger than iProvo, for one thing. The goal was to provide FTTP > to businesses and homes from Cedar City to Tremonton. >
Looks like UTOPIA has made its interest in Google's offer known: http://www.freeutopia.org/2010/02/17/utopia-announces-that-they-will-pursue-google-fiber-rfi/ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
