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I promised you I would tell you about Chattanooga Tennessee
here in washington DC
on a good day I can get down low and I've got
you know I've that topical line consumer internet
service which is supposedly I think
fifty megabytes download maybe the advertisers 20 maybe the advertisers a
hundred I'm not sure whatever it is but I can
you know I can get a measured it you know when you do the whole test things
a twenty-seven downs by Bob megabytes
and for that I'm pain whatever amp and I think it's
like something like 50 bucks a month and you here in the studio
we we have the commercial stuff and I'm pretty sure we're at a hundred down at
know what are we
it d it's even slower than that
yeah okay and we're paying a fortune for this we've got we've got several these
lines because we've got all the streams going out we have that we've got three
of these
and either plane of the cable
yeah and so in any case it's it's just
you know so just think about that I mean you know high-speed in the United States
means twenty megabytes per second
means you can watch Netflix sort of
I if you want to download a two-hour movie it can take a half hour
II I remember many times Louise
loves to watch movies on her I i pad
on airplanes and so here and
we travel for months over in a travel someplace she will try to download a
couple movies to iPad you know should go to
to you know what to say Amazon or whatever where they sell movies in
shelters you know by a couple movies and download them and put them on our iPad
and she has to sit there and wait for hours armor one time
we were at the airport was only have downloaded and she was like oh my god
issues frantic about it because the
you know the download speed the airports even even in the
the red carpet club or whatever it's called the you know other the airline
club
a was still just painfully slow
and hooking it up to her phone and using the AT&T service for the hot spots still
brutal lease
you know it's like five mags if you're lucky so Chattanooga Tennessee said
screw this
the internet is not that different from television from an electric utility
or from water right it's an it's becoming a natural monopoly you don't
you can't really choose among
I'm bought large multitude providers you know one pipe coming into your house and
and its part the comment it's like the old you know Ben Franklin with the
library's back in philadelphia you know it's like they should be available to
everybody let's make this a public utility
because it's part of having an informed and educated electorate
I mean even if people do want to watch Netflix or watch *** or something still
there's the news there there's
you know if you can communicate with people you can talk to Grandma you can
you know it's all right there
people increasingly are living their lives on the web and we can debate
you know the the relative merits or health love that
which is a whole different discussion but the fact of the matter is that
increasingly you've got to have good reliable high-speed Internet access
so keep in mind I'm talkin you know to 10 20 50 100 megabyte download speeds
are considered blazing fast in the United States the average
in Japan and South Korea is a gigabyte
a 1000 megabytes a second you can download a two-hour movie in 35 seconds
so Chattanooga Tennessee gets
the the city fathers get together and rent fathers mothers in whatever you
know that that the City Council
they get together and they say I'm let's do this
and they took some money from the
Obama stimulus
which is kinda cool
and they built out
was a 111 million dollar federal stimulus grant in 2009
and they also had to borrow $219 million dollars they will make that back because
they
they charge 70 bucks a month
but you get one gigabyte download
knows Chattanooga Tennessee now has the same speed as
everybody in South Korea everybody in Seoul South Korea anyway
and there's the New York Times Edward white has this piece in
inner be yesterday's New York Times February 3rd
the headline fast internet is chattanooga's new law that locomotive
they're calling gigs city and this
this town in the Appalachians you know and
that that has never really been known for anything other than just being
you know the Chattanooga Choo Choo i spose nom
but there are literally
companies movin from San Francisco New York where they can't get this going
internet speed
to Chattanooga
and its creator die at least a thousand new jobs
and well-paying jobs new internet startup companies are moving there this
is the new manufacturing for america
and it's because it's a public utility it's been run by the people
for the people at cost no stockholders have to skim their money out the top by
a virtual
dividends no CEO is making a $300 million dollar your salary
it's not at all like Comcast Herbaliser AT&T
now instead it's like the local water utilities
and it works you're listening to but Tom Hartman program
call 866 987 thon
so far three cities in America have done this chat now been the biggest and the
best
every city in America should be doing she should be running for City Council
on his ticket if you think