FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 27, 2010
Contact: Fred Pilot
fpilot@caminofiber.net
The Camino Fiber Network Cooperative (CFNC) is asking Google to construct innovative open access fiber optic telecommunications infrastructure to more than 23,000 premises in central El Dorado County.
CFNC, a recently formed consumer telecommunications cooperative, proposed the project in response to Google’s request for information (RFI) from local governments and communities interested in serving as locations to test deployment of ultra-high speed broadband networks capable of providing Internet connectivity of 1 gigabit per second.
“El Dorado County is an ideal locale to demonstrate fiber can be brought to all premises in a fully built out network that legacy wire line telco and cable providers cannot offer due to the limitations of their business models,” said Fred Pilot, CFNC founder and president.
“For years, too many of the region’s residents and business owners have been unable to obtain even basic Internet access from these providers. If constructed, Google’s fiber network would move them off the dial up, digital dirt road of the early 1990s and onto the Internet fast lane of tomorrow.”
The enormous capacity of Google’s fiber to the premises network would serve up Web sites instantly, offer crystal clear voice communications and high definition videoconferencing and video entertainment to the large number of El Dorado County homes and businesses that continue to struggle with obsolete dialup and costly, slow satellite Internet connections.
The network’s high bandwidth could also make possible new online services that have not yet been developed. Formed in 2009 with the goal of constructing consumer-owned and operated fiber to the premises telecom infrastructure in Camino and other parts of central El Dorado County, CFNC shares Google’s goal to construct an open access network.
Unlike the closed access wire line networks operated by legacy providers, an open access network offers consumers the choice of multiple, competing Internet service providers.
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