City of Westminster takes step toward World-Class Broadband
The
City has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to identify potential partners that would
operate, maintain, and sell consumer broadband services over the City’s planned infrastructure.
The
network, which would connect to every home and business in the City in a “fiber-to-the-
premises” (FTTP) architecture, would be able to match the capabilities of the most powerful
broadband networks in the world, including the systems that Google is building in Kansas City
and
Austin, Texas, and the ultra-fast municipal network in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Westminster does not lie on
any major highway routes, despite having a significant commuter
population and being only 35
miles from
Baltimore. The FTTP network project is the chance for
Westminster to become a major destination on
the
highways of the 21st century—broadband.
Such a network would make Westminster one of the country’s most connected communities, belonging in the same category as places like Kansas City, Austin, and Chattanooga. A gigabit network would open up new applications for businesses, critical resources for the health care
sector, and telework options that could bring an economic boom to the City.
Today’s RFI is the latest development in a strategic broadband plan that began last fall, when the Westminster Common Council unanimously voted to commission a study on broadband
expansion for the City. The City’s plans also build on
the
Carroll County Public Network (CCPN) and the soon-to-be-complete, federally funded Inter-County Broadband Network (ICBN).
All
interested respondents are asked to submit a letter of intent via email by April 19,
2013 to rmiller@westgov.com, or via hard
copy to: City of Westminster
Attn: Robert Miller
56 W. Main St. Westminster, MD 21157
Complete RFI’s are due
by
May 3, 2013. The full RFI is available here:
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