What could you do with networking speeds 100 times faster than they currently are?

   
Tempe submitted its application to Google last March. We are one of hundreds of cities across the country to apply. Not putting all our eggs into one basket, we are also working with telecom companies in Tempe to achieve the goal of border to border fiber in Tempe. Councilmember Onnie Shekerjian addressed the Fiber to the Home Council in its Dec. 8 conference at the Arizona Biltmore. Click here for her presentation.
   
 

What could you do with networking speeds 100 times faster than they currently are? Google is taking applications from communities that want to find out. They’re offering to install free high speed fiber in at least one community in America. Cities have to compete with each other to get it. The deadline is March 26.

Tempe wants that fiber. We want it for our 175,000 residents, for our 175,000 workers, for our 4 million visitors who travel here annually for fun and business and for our 200,000 college students. Why do we want it? Tempe, Arizona is known for innovation. We think that the combined brain power of all these people, with this fiber, can change the world. We’ve already done so much.

You can help convince Google that Tempe is the best place to showcase their fiber. Tell us how you can change the world, or at least your corner of it, if you had access to the kind of speed that Google fiber promises.

 

How you can help… your enthusiasm will be rewarded!

   
Make and post your own video to YouTube
Use this in your title: One Community Changing the World, Tempe,AZ , #gtempe

Want inspiration? Check out ASU's video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYJux05MJhA

 

Tell your friends and followers
Tweet: @tempegov #gtempe #tempe
 

Post your photos to Flickr
Post a photo to Flickr that shows how they would change the world using the speed of Google fiber.
Press :

Press Release

ABC 15 News

ASU State Press

East Valley Tribune

Letter from ITT Technical Institute

Testimonial of a Different Kind - survey shows residents love us

 
Thanks to our Application Partners:
The following companies lent their creative genius to our initial efforts to submit this application to Google and help you learn about how you can help. Gotta love them!

Downtown Tempe Community
Terralever
Sitewire
Keane Creative
US Airways
Zion and Zion
RailLife
ASU Research
 
Let’s make sure Google understands how passionate we are about this!
Got other ideas on how we can make a statement to Google? Let's hear them!
Call 480 858-2059 or email kris_baxter@tempe.gov