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Resolution to Urge the Selection of the City of Ann Arbor as a Google Fiber for Communities Trial Location
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Whereas, Google, Inc. is planning to build and provide ultra-high speed broadband networks in one or more communities in the United States, which networks would consist of 1 Gbps, fiber-to-the-home (“FTTH”) connections and would provide Internet service to residents at a competitive price;
Whereas, Ann Arbor is an Internet-savvy, entrepreneurial, highly educated community of approximately 114,000 persons residing in more than 47,000 households;
Whereas, The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with a nearly 40,000-member student body, is among the world’s leading public research university in at least the fields of medicine, engineering and computer science;
Whereas, The University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor is one of the nation’s leading medical education, clinical and research centers, with over 2,000,000 patient visits per year and over 40,000 employees, researchers and clinicians;
Whereas, The total research expenditures of the University of Michigan in 2009 exceeded $1,000,000,000;
Whereas, The City of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan are working closely together to respond to the Google Request for Information;
Whereas, The City of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan are working together with Detroit Edison, the owner of approximately 75% of all utilities poles in Ann Arbor, to ensure the rapid, efficient construction of the Google FTTH network;
Whereas, The Ann Arbor City Council believes that the Ann Arbor-University of Michigan community’s balance of educational, medical, and entrepreneurial excellence, combined with committed, professional municipal leadership provides Google the ideal setting in which to test the installation and effects of a 1 Gbps, FTTH network; and
Whereas, The Ann Arbor City Council believes that the installation and operation of a Google FTTH network in Ann Arbor would be a tremen...
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