Bram Pitoyo, a young creative, working at WKEntertainment, explains that he sees high bandwidth as the key to the rich connectivity and communication that the future calls for. Open-access, community fiber offers the greatest potential for service agnostic, high-speed bandwidth.
Jerry Ketel keeps it short and sweet when explaining why he wants open-access, community fiber.
David Olson, Director of the Cable Franchise Management Office, discusses open-access community fiber, and the City’s response to Google. Here’s a great piece the Willamette Week did back in ’99 about David and the City’s battle with AT&T (now Comcast). You’ll note the similarities between what we face now, with no fiber in Portland while [...]
Crystal Beasley, a Portland Creative, explains that it’s all about giving artists and writers a bigger pipe to work with.
Ward Cunningham shares his hopes for open-access, community fiber and recounts how early exposure to an open-access Internet connection allowed him to influence and change the world.
Sheldon Renan hosted a fantastic potluck meeting to discuss an open-access, community fiber optic network in Portland, OR. While the meeting was precipitated by Google’s recent RFI announcement, everyone in attendance agreed that Portland needs a fiber network, by any means necessary.