[kictanet] Fwd: Thank the FCC

[Bernard Kioko]

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From: "Derek Slater, Google" <no-reply at takeaction.withgoogle.com>
Date: Feb 27, 2015 1:17 AM
Subject: Thank the FCC
To: "Bernard Kioko" <bkioko at bernsoft.com>
Cc:


<https://takeaction.withgoogle.com/page/m/1439da90/18aeee9/2a6fe56/3ed7d859/2502386607/VEsH/>

Dear Bernard:

You may have heard that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just
put in place rules to protect 'net neutrality.' That's big news.

But there was another important decision today to help keep the Internet
competitive and open — and while it's getting less attention, it may be
just as important.

As part of its agenda to encourage meaningful competition in high speed
broadband for all Americans, the FCC supported allowing cities to make
their own decisions about investing in new broadband networks. More needs
to be done to drive innovation in bigger, faster broadband, but this is a
good step.

*Share this graphic to thank the FCC and Chairman Tom Wheeler for their
actions:*
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While the FCC's net neutrality rules can help prevent Internet access
providers from relegating some applications to a "slow lane," this move
alone won't lead to a world where every consumer has an ultra fast
connection to the entire Internet. That's going to take more competition
and innovation in new broadband networks.

It's been nearly five years since we offered to build a fiber-optic network
in one U.S. city as an experiment — and as we've expanded Google Fiber into
a business, we've seen firsthand how faster speeds can improve lives and
give cities new platforms for economic development.

Google is not the only one innovating in this area. Along with investments
by other private providers, cities like Lafayette, LA and Chattanooga, TN
have been investing in their own networks and developing public-private
partnerships to that end.

Today, the FCC decided that it's important for users to be able to control
their own Internet connections and for communities to make their own
choices to suit their local needs for broadband. While it may not make
sense for most governments to operate broadband networks themselves, we
think faster, better broadband for all Americans is too important to remove
an option for deployment.

*Thank Chairman Wheeler and the FCC for supporting local choice and
competition in broadband networks:*

*https://takeaction.withgoogle.com/thank-the-fcc*
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Thanks,

Derek Slater
Google Inc.

P.S. If you want to learn more about the ingenuity of cities supporting
broadband investment and competition, check out *Next Century Cities.*
<https://takeaction.withgoogle.com/page/m/1439da90/18aeee9/2a6fe56/3ed7d8cc/2502386607/VEsO/>

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