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Helping communities go from
gigabit envy to gigabit deployed has
been a central mission of the Fiber
to the Home Council for more than
a year, beginning with the release of
our online community toolkit and
conference last summer in Kansas
City and regional events in Austin and
Lafayette earlier this year.
We're proud to work with
companies like Google Fiber in this
efort. Building on the work of the
Fiber to the Home Council, Gig.U, the
U.S. Conference of Mayors and other
industry experts, Google Fiber recently
announced a project to compile best
practices into a practical, actionable
roadmap that makes getting bigger
bandwidth easier, faster and less
disruptive. It has released a checklist for
cities to use based on some of the work
produced by the Council and others.
Fiber is on fre, and this year's
annual FTTH Conference & Expo,
held from June 23 – 25 in Fort
Lauderdale, will show why. Join
keynote speakers Guru Pai, senior vice
president and chief production ofcer of
Verizon, and James Feger, vice president
for network strategy and development
of CenturyLink, to learn how leadership
strategizes for future trends in FTTH.
Hear from Gigi Sohn, special counsel
for external afairs for FCC Chairman
Tomas Wheeler, and Jonathan
Chambers, chief of the Ofce of
Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis,
FCC, how fber fts into federal plans
for the digital future. Come hear about
the companies and people who make
the news and keep the fre burning for
fber to the home.
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Heather Burnett Gold is president of the
FTTH Council Americas, a nonproft
association of organizations that deliver
services over FTTH networks, companies
that manufacture FTTH products and
others involved in planning and building
FTTH networks. She can be reached at
heather.b.gold@ftthcouncil.org.
Though the vast majority of all-fber
deployments are private, communities need
to be able to get this infrastructure where the
private sector is unable to deploy.
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