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ROD AUSTIN: Tech hubs need speed

If Missoula wants to make a name for itself in this century’s digital economy, where better to start than at its source: The networks that bring the Internet to homes throughout the community.

Indeed, many cities around the country are taking control of their own high-speed, fiber-optic networks that are beginning to pay dividends for their local economies. The publicly owned networks are also beginning to diminish the monopolies of a few cable companies that control most of Internet connections in the United States.

In a Planetizen article last year (http://www.bit.ly/K4VoTZ) Christopher Mitchell highlighted Chattanooga, Tenn., which created a community-owned broadband network with a slowest speed of 30 megabits per second. The fastest offered is 1 gigabit per second.

By Rod Austin

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/business/montana-inbusiness/columns/rod-austin-tech-hubs-need-speed/article_eff159f2-a5de-11e2-9db1-0019bb2963f4.html

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