RFP Staff
♦ Hate to let the cat out of the bag about Amerika’s Gig City and Fibrant’s “big” announcement next Thursday, but we will. Reliable sources informed us over a week ago that Fibrant is going to 10 gigs. Hey if you can’t sell 1 gig (There’s only 1 or 2 “1 gig” subscribers) then why not try to sell 10 gigs? Sounds great–typical City of Salisbury icing on a stale cake that never rose.
What tickles us is that Time Warner Cable already has 10 gig dedicated lines available to anywhere in Salisbury or the county. Trouble is nobody is using that kind speed here. And can you trick people into coming to a city drowning in crime, 10 unsolved murders and the top cop admitting moonlighting at the Salisbury Housing Authority, 25% poverty, substandard schools, and a lack of jobs and economic muscle? Many gig cities exist all over North Carolina that offer a gig or better in safer environments with better schools, far less poverty, less blight, more fun things to do, and so forth.
On Thursday you’ll hear hokum about the “next generation of innovation” and “moving beyond to the next horizons”. Well at least they stopped using the played out words vibrancy and visionary.
Next Thursday dignitaries are scheduled to attend including Mayor Paul Woodson (Woodson is considered a dignitary?), Catawba President Brien Lewis, Deb Scotia of Next Century Cities, and other distinguished private and public sector guests. This is said to be a collaboration between Fibrant, Calix, and Catawba College.
10 gigs–we told you first.
“Moving Beyond the Next Horizons”:
