City of Asheville NC Competes for Google Fiber Network

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 26, 2010 -- Asheville, NC (PRWEB) Mar 24, 2010 – Asheville, North Carolina is engaged in a nationwide competition called the Google Fiber Network Initiative, that would bring citywide ultra high-speed Internet service.

Google fiber network would increase Internet speeds 100 times faster than current capacity. Increased data storage and speed of inter-connectivity between sectors could be applied in innovative ways across the region's disciplines.

A faster and larger capacity for inter-connectivity would provide a technological springboard for visionary leaps across the disciplines including health care, education, arts, social equity and sustainability concerns.

Citizens are crowding Town Hall and Chamber of Commerce meetings this week as the campaign, which is entirely grassroots, kicks into high gear. Climate scientists, health care professionals, entrepreneurs, artists and school administrators are among those engaged in energized discussions about the visionary and creative applications for the Google fiber network.

Partnerships between the City of Asheville, medical research facilities, UNCA, and Warren Wilson College and other progressive institutions are proving that Asheville is moving forward in the technology sector. The infrastructure is already in place.


"I think Asheville will take Google to the next level, and I think Google will take Asheville to the next level," says Mayor Teri Bellamy. "When we think about the innovation that has been happening in our community, it's just a compliment to have Google come to our community."

The city has a history of attracting innovators and creative thinkers whose influence spreads far and wide, for example, designer R. Buckminster Fuller, who built his first dome on the grounds of the nearby Black Mountain School of the Arts, and Robert Moog, inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

Asheville-O-Vision highlights some of the talent and resources Google could count on to maximize their investment. http://www.youtube.com/user/AshevilleOVision

"If Google comes to Asheville, I think it could truly change the world," says resident and IT professional Clark Mackey. "There is no town I have ever lived in that has as many people with big ideas. People with models for climate change, people with renewable resources, people who want to push the movement for two-way meters to be installed in every home in America...and these people, if they are given bandwidth, their ideas will take wing and change the world."

Local celebrity Andie MacDowell is in full support of the Google Fiber Initiative. MacDowell is using Twitter to raise awareness about the exciting prospect of a partnership between Asheville and Google.

For additional information on the Google Fiber Initiative, visit http://www.googleavl.com.

More information can be found online at http://www.googleavl.com

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