Chattanooga’s EPB Fiber is the highest profile community network in the U.S. It was the first network in the nation to offer a symmetrical gigabit tier to every last address in the community. On today’s Community Broadband Bits podcast, Danna Bailey joins us to discuss the network.
Danna Bailey is EPB’s Vice President of Corporate Communications and has long helped behind the scenes to keep our site informed of Chattanooga’s progress. We talk about why Chattanooga built the network and the role of the stimulus award for smart grid in expediting the build out long after the project had started.
We also talk about job growth – both large firms and small entreprenurs locating in Chattanooga while citing the community fiber network as a big part of the reason.
The conversation updates the Chattanooga case study we published last year. Chattanooga remains far ahead of its business plan and is doing very well financially. Read all the stories we have published about Chattanooga here.
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