[Durham INC] Fwd: [fhna_durham] Google Fiber proposes broadband internet for $4 per month

Mon Mar 31 13:41:12 EDT 2014

See info below concerning high speed internet 

Sent from my iPhone - Donna Laws 919-489-6959

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> From: "Cotton, Norris G" <Norris.Cotton at morganstanley.com>
> Date: March 31, 2014 at 1:06:31 PM EDT
> To: "Donna Laws (laws_donna at yahoo.com)" <laws_donna at yahoo.com>, Donna Laws <dlaws at exchangefamilycenter.org>
> Cc: "FHNA Full Board (fullboard at fhnadurham.com) (fullboard at fhnadurham.com)" <fullboard at fhnadurham.com>
> Subject: FW: [fhna_durham] Google Fiber proposes broadband internet for $4 per month
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> Donna,
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> The below Google Fiber info would be a good topic to share with INC and perhaps have them discriminate the information on other member list serves.
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> Thanks
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> Norris.
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> From: fhna_durham at yahoogroups.com [mailto:fhna_durham at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Donald Dryden
> Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2014 1:23 PM
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> Subject: [fhna_durham] Google Fiber proposes broadband internet for $4 per month
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> Forest Hills Neighbors:
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> There's been a discussion on the Watts-Hillandale listserv this morning about Google Fiber's plans to give serious consideration to the installation of a fiber optic system in Durham capable of supporting Internet upload and download speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second. Other service options would include 5 Mbps for an installation fee of $300, with no additional charges for 7 years of service. (This comes to $3.57 per month!)  Here's a link showing what Google is currently offering in Kansas City:
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> https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/
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> To be considered for this system, the City needs to provide certain information to Google (as specified on a checklist that Google has given to the City) by May 1. According to an article in the March 14 issue of Triangle Business Journal, the Durham City Manager is working on the checklist:
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> http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/blog/techflash/2014/03/google-fiber-durham-is-getting-ready-to-meet-you.html
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> Since Google will also take community support into account, we can do our part by letting Google know as individuals that we are interested by signing up for email updates here: https://fiber.google.com/newcities/  Scroll down the page to the section titled "Get Updates", click on the link, and provide your email address.
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> It also seems important that we let our city leaders know that we want this, and that we want them to do everything possible to make it happen. The following web pages provide links (on the right-hand side of the page) for emailing the City Manager, the Mayor, and the individual members of the City Council:
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> http://durhamnc.gov/ich/cc/Pages/Home.aspx   (Mayor and Council Members)
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> http://durhamnc.gov/ich/cmo/Pages/Home.aspx  (City Manager)
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> Let's do what we can stick it to Time Warner Cable, Frontier DSL, and the other local Internet service providers that have caused all of us so much frustration with their exorbitant pricing and abyssmal service (as measured by the standards currently available in many other industrialized nations)!
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> Donald Dryden
> 108 Bri ar Cliff Rd.
> Durham, NC  27707
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> P.S. I've attached (below) examples of two emails that members of the WHHNA Listserv have sent to the Mayor and City Council.
> ____________________________________________
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> Dear Council Members,
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> Please do everything you can to ensure that Google Fiber comes to Durham.
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> I recently moved a business and dealing with Time Warner Cable cost us 7 weeks of delays, which results in a real impact of diminished sales and a check on our growth for last year. We are also paying an exorbitant amount for decent "business class" service. Over the years, working with them to get adequate internet service has cost thousands of dollars and many weeks of productivity. Every time we sit there waiting for a file to upload, we're loosing capacity. Whe n I talk with many other young entrepreneurs, it seems most people have had similar experiences and frustrations.
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> If you get cheap high speed fiber here in Durham, it will be a MAJOR economic driver, especially with all of the tech startups at the American Underground and around downtown, not mention the major players in RTP. It will also be a major selling point for folks looking to move to Durham. The amount of information we need to upload and download online continues to grow at a rate that TWC does not seem ready to be able to serve.
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> Sincerely,
> Christina Headrick
> Business owner, Indigo Envelope design studio,
> and Resident, 1307 Dollar Avenue
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> Dear Mayor and Council,
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> Please let me add a strong second for Christina Headrick's message below. I am a partner in a small start-up with good growth potential. Much of our work involves remote technical and consulting services. That means we need bandwidth for both communications (virtual meetings with screen-sharing and/or video are a regular thing) and for data. Living here while supporting clients both here and remote is ideal for us, and we want to be able to make it work long term. 
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> The limited internet options and lack of reliability are a real problem for us. It's no good when we can't sustain a working connection to web conferences, or when data transfers take much longer than clients are accustomed to waiting. We'd like to be able to have more web services, but there are li mitations to what we can do without incurring the currently very high costs of adequate internet connection locally.That's a growth-capper for us.
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> Having lived in Northern Virginia where Fiber is widely available through Verizon. I know that the level of service we need for business is no more than what is routinely available as residential service levels through Fiber. I agree with Christina that having Fiber here in Durham will be a significant boost to all kinds of small and large businesses here. I hope that we can make it happen.
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> Best Regards,
> Amanda Vizedom
> Partner, Criticollab, LLC
> Consultant, applied ontologies and semantic information systems
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