Google: Think Big with a Gig

yes yes yes and yes

Giggity!

Hmmm, who can we trust to market this to google?

NO! Life here moves a little slower and we like it that way.

Would be nice, but really, how impossible would it be to run new lines to individual houses? There's a reason FiOS only goes to a few places around here...

Why would it be harder to wire Buffalo than any other city? It should actually be easier because of the density and flatness of the geography

Why would Buffalo be perfect for Google? Who the hell writes behind Buffalo Rising?

Any city would love to have this but if Google is going to invest, they are going to do it somewhere else.

If you hear back from Erkel, be sure to mention the opportunity he would have for a nice photo op of him mailing the application to google.

I would love to see it here but believe it or not our proximity to Canada hurts us sometimes in the rollout of newer wireless technologies. Some frequencies that are used for different technologies have to be approved by Canada and the US or sometimes shared; delaying the rollout here until both sides of the border have approved it.

It's still something that should be pursued.

There shouldn't however be any issues with the fiber to the home solution they want to do.

i submitted my nomination. hope everyone who likes the idea ignores the trolls for once and submits theirs.

Actually Buffalo makes some sense. We are a large but not "mega" metro area, making the roll out smaller. Also as a lesser profile, just "happy to be on board" we may not be as harsh as trying to roll out immediately in NYC, LA, or DC. Basically we will be BETA testers, for that you want a loyal base of consumers not an acutely critical clientel with high expectations.

Many also do not know that Buffalo is a very "wired" city. Maybe not in the sense of individual homes, but we sit at a crossroads of many of the major pipes of the internet. Between NYC, Boston, Toronto, and Chicago, there are physical fiber optics, many running along I-90, if you know what to look for you can see the repeater sites. There is another reason Yahoo is here besides weather and tax breaks and that is access to the worlds electronic infrastructure.

So again we have people saying we can never, they don't want us. Instead of looking at why we can. The biggest reason Buffalo continues to fail, cause there are to many people looking for reasons not to succeed. I hope Google does this here, more so I hope Google follows suit with Yahoo and builds a data center with low cost power, and hopefully Microsoft next.

Green technology, and internet based products are the next wave. The internet bubble from the 90's weeded out all the non-sense, your dog having a web page is not progressive and adds no value to anything but you and your immediate group of friend to laugh at. The tech that is being developed now is the next 100 years, and we are still not to late.

This goes for high speed rail too! Tell me what Buffalo would be if the I-90 didn't run through it? Nay sayers are NOT realist they are people who want to grip and be past buy. I for one want to move forward in BUFFALO NY.

So as you sit in you circa 1960's single story brown brick ranch (I had to type that so people know what side of the city vs. suburb argument I'm on :) ), cracking your knuckles getting ready to type about why Google doesn't want a part of Buffalo and why Buffalo can't accomplish this. Why don't you instead go to the website and type something worth while telling Google you want them here, and why they can succeed.

Imbecilic post.

We have absolutely no secrets from Google.

Imagine a totalitarian government (soon to be seen on these shores) pairing up with Google as "thought police." Just around the corner.

Buffalo is too poor to need this. Most of our people can't afford cars much less a new laptop. The best most have is a cell phone. It is going to be that way until we start sharing the wealth from the suburbs with the city. This might make sense in Clarence or Elma but not in the city.

Sorry folks, the rich just keep taking too much from the city to pull this off.

There is a FACEBOOK group to encourage people to support this effort. Someone has designed a very attractive, Buffalo-specific logo for it, too.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=302036175685&ref=ss

It's a way to measure the enthusiasm of Western New Yorkers for this possibility.

Other cities have more than a 1000 supporters (Baton Rouge has 1318 members).

Buffalo -- so far -- has just over 600 people.

Why don't all of you reading this join the Facebook Group and bump up the numbers?

If folks put as much energy in trying to accomplish this as some people do into figuring out why it's impossible, maybe it might happen.