Google has launched a new web site called Google Fiber for Communities where, according to a posting from a Google product manager “you can learn more about fiber networks and keep up-to-date” on the company’s plan to build experimental ultra-high speed broadband networks. The site also will enable visitors to “advocate for common-sense federal and local policies that would help fiber deployments nationwide.” The company is still in the process of reviewing applications from nearly 1100 communities wanting to be project sites and expects to announce project recipients by year-end.
A link posted on the site displays a short YouTube video that strings together snippets of news broadcasts about Google’s plans and from videos that various communities sent to Google in support of their applications. Among the snippets are bird’s eye views of the tops of community residents’ heads as they spell out the word “Google,” a child spooning fiber cable into a bowl from a box labeled “Google Fiber” and
commentary from Emmanuell Tikili of Boston’s Youth Outreach Connection. “What this will say to the
community is dream big,” Tikili says. “There is no dream that is too large for us.”
