On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Bill Merriam wrote:

> Gainesville seems, to me, perfect since we already have extensive
> community owned fiber.  If Google wants to bring in truck loads of money
> and expand that for us it seems like a good deal.
>
> On the other hand perhaps they would be competing with GRU, which would
> be very bad for GRU.

Nonsense.  It would be very good for GRU, in the same way that their 
government subsidized internet offerings were good for the local ISPs they 
undercut.

> They are asking for local communities to submit RFI's with data about
> why we could be a good choice.  I think a joint submission between
> Gainesville, GRU, UF and Shands would be killer.  Unfortunately the
> deadline is in 5 weeks.

Gainesville is relatively small, centered around a large university, and 
currently has few choices for high speed internet access (Cox, AT&T, 
GRUcom).  It seems to me, the compactness would minimize the costs of 
running fiber around the city.

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