The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and UNC have teamed up to apply for Google’s ultra high-speed Internet project and hope to build support for the effort at a public forum scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m. at Chapel Hill Town Hall.
In early February, Google announced the initiative to deploy and test fiber optic networks that will deliver Internet services at a speed of 1 gigabit per second, which is more than 100 times faster than the speeds available in most places in the country.
The communities selected by Google will be “testbed†communities that will help the company demonstrate the new capabilities enabled by faster and better broadband access.
Supporters want to use the forum to hear from the public on the fiber optic trial, including how residents would use an ultra high-speed Internet network.
There is also a public survey posted at surveymonkey.com/s/QLM5QST.