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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Raleigh / Chapel Hill / Wake County / Orange County / media / Durham County / Carrboro / Durham / education Google humbled by response to fiber program, launches new Web site

Posted by on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:36 PM

Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill/Carrboro were among 36 municipalities in North Carolina and almost 1,100 nationally to apply for Google Fiber, the company announced today.

Durham residents turned out in droves to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in March to try to woo Google.
  • Durham residents turned out in droves to the Durham Bulls Athletic Park in March to try to woo Google.
    • The tech giant rolled out plans in February to build a fiber-optic network for ultra-fast broadband in one or more communities sized between 50,000 and 500,000 people.

    The response was much more than they expected.

    Now Google has launched a site that centralizes their efforts and calls on communities to translate their push for Google Fiber into a move for national and local legislation to create fiber infrastructure.

    The site also features a thank you video that features, among others, Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt and Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton. Does that provide any clues? We’ll have to wait to the end of the year to find out who Google has selected.

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