[1st-mile-nm] Friedman on Chattanooga's fiber network

[John Brown]

The answer is easy.
Mayor
City Manager
City Attorney (who doesn't get it)
Everyone on the City Council.

Then get the people that vote and elect the above to inform them you want change.

Then maybe Santa Fe can have speedtest results like this

http://www.speedtest.net/result/2235604559.png



> -----Original Message-----
> From: 1st-mile-nm-bounces at mailman.dcn.org [mailto:1st-mile-nm-
> bounces at mailman.dcn.org] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:51 PM
> To: David Breecker (dba)
> Cc: Complexity Coffee Group; 1st-Mile-NM
> Subject: Re: [1st-mile-nm] Friedman on Chattanooga's fiber network
> 
> I sure wish I know who in Santa Fe to send this to:
> 
> 	And that brings me back to Chattanooga, where, Mayor Ron
> Littlefield says, city elders looked themselves in the eyes 15 years ago and
> realized that "we were a dilapidated city going the way of the Rust Belt." But,
> by coming together to make the city an attractive place to live and getting
> both parties to agree to invest in a fiber-to-every-home-and-business
> network in a 600-square-mile area, Chattanooga replaced its belching
> smokestacks with an Amazon.com fulfillment center, major health care and
> insurance companies and a beehive of tech start-ups that all thrive on big
> data and super-high-speed Internet
> 
> 
> 
> This is amazing:
> 
> 	How fast is that Chattanooga choo-choo? The majority of
> Chattanooga homes and businesses get 50 megabits per second, some 100
> megabits, a few 250 and those with big needs opt for a full gigabit per second
> 
> 
> 
> I'm lucky to get 1.5 down, .5 up.
> 
> 
>    -- Owen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:57 PM, David Breecker (dba)
> <david at breeckerassociates.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 	And related economic points of interest:
> 
> 	http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/opinion/friedman-obamas-
> moment.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20121121
> 
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