[GRLUG] Community based internet

[Dagny Scott]

I can tell you what happened to the Grand Rapids WiFi initiative; the
company that was going to provide it was bought by Sprint and ended up in
lawsuits with the company that had exclusive rights to sell Sprint services
in West Michigan. At this point, with cellular data plans as common as they
are, the appeal of this program has been greatly diminished.

As for the Google fiber initiative, that hasn't been decided yet. Google put
out a "request for information" that allows cities to lobby for inclusion in
their Google Fiber for Communities project. No communities have been
selected yet.

Dagny

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interesting.  There was some chatter
> two years ago or so about GR putting
> up a wireless system - about 1.5Mbps
> down, and 256Kbps up.  Hopelessly
> out of date even out of the gate.
>
> Verizon: "Mar 24, 2011 WSJ reports 12.6 Mbps down & 4.7 Mbps up, fastest
> in industry."
>
> The last buzz was that Google might
> consider GR for a 1Gbps service.  Pretty
> clearly, it has lost interest in that.
>
> But it's nice to see other towns doing
> something.......  :-(     With MI being
> dead last, second to the bottom, economically,
> and losing population, don't look for Comcast
> or others to stumble over themselves offering
> more bandwidth in GR.
>
>     -- Bob
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Joel Freiberg <jefrat72 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My guess would be none, unless enough complain.
>>
>> I see Holland MI is on the list in the ARS article, though they only
>> seem to offer to business and locals like schools.
>>
>> http://www.hollandbpw.com/Broadband/Pages/Services.aspx
>>
>> > Nice to see it all spelled out. I wonder
>> > to what extent this means that providers
>> > will have to adapt their terminology.
>> >     -- Bob
>>
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