
{"id":9277,"date":"2010-03-11T10:37:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2010-03-11T10:37:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T18:37:54","slug":"towns-to-hold-public-forum-on-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/03\/11\/towns-to-hold-public-forum-on-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Towns to hold public forum on Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and UNC have teamed up to apply for Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The communities selected by Google will be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153testbed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d communities that will help the company demonstrate the new capabilities enabled by faster and better broadband access.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nThere is also a public survey posted at<a href=\"http:\/\/surveymonkey.com\/s\/QLM5QST\"> surveymonkey.com\/s\/QLM5QST<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro and UNC have teamed up to apply for Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9278,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions\/9278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}