Google’s most recent post, “The State of Broadband Internet Access in Kansas City”, on the Google Fiber blog sparked a discussion over the weekend as to who truly owns or should own the business of broadband in Kansas City.
On June 24, broadband strategist Craig Settles posted an article on GigaOM entitled “Does Kansas City own the business of broadband?”, providing a list of seven things that gauges whether a city is properly developing the broadband infrastructure, a process, he said, “by which communities use the technology as a tool to improve economic development, transform education and expedite healthcare delivery. ... continue reading »