Awareness of Fiber to the Home has been exploding in the wake of the nation-wide publicity surrounding the Google Fiber for Communities project and so has the demand for education about FTTH.
To empower municipal leaders and broadband champions to launch their own fiber networks, independent broadband strategist Craig Settles, author of Fighting the Next Good Fight: Bringing True Broadband to Your Community. http://www.successful.com/msp/ngfsummary.html, will present an interactive series of six webinars. The first webinar, entitled "12 Steps to Move Broadband from Ideas to Execution," is scheduled for Wednesday, July 7, at 2 pm EDT. More information and registration is at http://www.bbpmag.com/MuniPortal/webcasts.html.
The Google project and the national broadband stimulus program have alerted municipal leaders to the need for community fiber networks to position their cities to compete in the global economy.
Almost 1,200 communities applied to attract a Google-financed 1 Gbps fiber optic network," says Steven Ross, corporate editor of Broadband Properties and moderator of the webinar series. In addition, "800 applied for broadband stimulus funds
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