Google’s looking for municipalities to apply to beta test their super-fast fiber-to-the-home broadband service. Citizens can nominated C’ville, but it’d be better for the city to apply. Nudge, nudge. We’re compact, small, and have a high rate of broadband usage—a perfect test bed.
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I would love to see what I could do with that much fiber but can Charlottesville or Albemarle get their act together long enough to out in an application?
I don’t think that Albemarle would be a good candidate; it’s way too spread out. Perhaps the very close-in neighborhoods in the urban hub could be included.
“We’ll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.” The city has around 40,000 people. I’m sure everyone would not want to participate so the county would have to agree also.
Looks like there’s a combined move to apply: UVA, C’ville, Albemarle:
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/article/city_county_and_uva_to_apply_for_ultrafast_google_fiber/52659/