Articles tagged:a2fiber

Posted: Fri Apr 23 6 a.m. by Edward Vielmetti
FOIA Friday: city charter, dioxane, historic windows and A2Fiber

This week's FOIA Friday is a collection of works in progress. It starts with a public civic pronouncement - enshrined in the charter of the City of Ann Arbor - that public records are to be made available to the public. From there it all goes downhill, with legal agreements ...

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Posted: Fri Mar 26 2:36 p.m. by Tina Reed
Ann Arbor 'mob' makes another case to attract Google Fiber

A few hundred Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County residents packed into the University of Michigan Diag in a "flash mob" on Friday afternoon in a bid to attract Google's attention.

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Posted: Thu Mar 25 4:16 p.m. by Erica Hobbs

Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje will be making an appearance Friday at GoogleFest, said organizer Chad Wiebesick of the Ann Arbor Ad Club. Wiebesick said Hieftjie will participate in the event’s flash mob from 11:57 a.m. to noon and will speak to the crowd.

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Posted: Wed Mar 24 11:30 a.m. by Edward Vielmetti

The A2Fiber project is coordinating the City of Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan's efforts in responding to the Google Fiber for Communities solicitation: "Our networks will deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today, over 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home ...

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Posted: Fri Mar 19 2:30 p.m. by Cindy Heflin News producer

Although Ann Arbor's attempt to woo Google's high-speed broadband network is generating some social media buzz, the local effort is not among the top 10 cities in digital conversations about Google Fiber, Crain's Detroit Business reported today. Grand Rapids, on the other hand, ranks third in social media buzz behind ...

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Posted: Fri Mar 19 2:04 p.m. by Erica Hobbs

An event sponsored by the Ann Arbor Ad Club hopes to gather more community support to bring Google’s proposed high-speed Internet to Ann Arbor. “Google Fiber moves the Internet from zero to 100 like a Fiesta to a Ferrari,” will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday on ...

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Posted: Fri Mar 19 1:30 p.m. by Events Admin AnnArbor.com
Posted: Fri Mar 19 6 a.m. by Paula Gardner News Director

Welcome to Washtenaw County, home of two separate efforts to win Google’s fiber optic investment. By “efforts,” I mean competition. This is, after all, a contest across the U.S. to get communities behind applications to win the nod - and the investment, notoriety and ultra high speed internet functions - ...

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