RST is looking to change up the broadband services market in Asheville and the region. This may be a game changer! I hope the ERC can work with RST and create new solutions for WNC! Let’s create a new dialogue!
http://roisforyou.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/tennessee-legies-go-into-pro-public-broadband-frenzy/
Tennessee legislators have bi-partisan support to expand public networks! Four bills have been written to un-do restrictions previously enacted. Check out the article above.
http://muninetworks.org/content/being-gig-city-its-all-about-upload
Community Broadband Networks discusses what it means to be a GigCity. This article is the second in a series about Wilson, NC.
Upload speeds in the US average 6.69 Mbps, which is ranked 41st in the world behind i.e. Hong Kong at 60 Mbps, Singapore (47 Mbps), and South Korea (44 Mbps). But, if you’re in Wilson, NC, you are competitive with the world’s top achievers. Read the article to learn more.
If you want to know what Google’s criteria are for building fiber in your city, here you go!
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/astronomy-legacy-project
Friends, please consider supporting PARI’s Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for a highly precise scanner for their Astronomy Legacy Project. This scanner will support their continued digitization of analog astronomical data and make it available to the world.
PARI has long been recognized for their many contributions, as evidenced in this NC STEM article, and I urge you to support them.
thank you,
Hunter Goosmann, ERC Executive Director