Stuck in the Internet slow lane nearest to Hawaii its network to drive slowly and expect Google to the rescue.
Through online petitions, a Facebook fan page and a YouTube video of the Governor, Hawaii wants to convince Google to choose the island for one of its fiber networks in a trial that could increase Internet speed 100 times faster those currently available to most Americans.
The search engine giant lance test to evaluate new ways to build fiber networks to demonstrate the power and high speed Internet cable and phone companies. He invited all-comers to say how you may qualify, and hundreds of communities around the country have submitted offers, saying they are the best place to live.
Efforts to Hawaii can be difficult to sell. Speed Sailing fruit of the state are among the slowest in the country, and legislative efforts to improve the speed have failed. And the isolation of being in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, could make the construction of a network of new practices.
But the disadvantages are also the number of earnings Hawaii that Google has chosen the state.
“With high-speed Internet, you can work from anywhere. What better place than Hawaii to work wherever you are?” Said Mike Curtis, Chief Operating Officer of the company within the SDC in Hawaii, whose Twitter feed has promoted the campaign Google to get to the islands.
Hawaii Google search efforts were not as flashy as some of its competitors across the country. For example, in Topeka, Kansas, unofficially dubbed “Google, Kansas in March.
However, the implementation of Hawaii, said he wanted to reduce bureaucracy and accelerate the regulatory approval from both governments and county government, paving the way for Google to rapidly deploy this service Premiere.
“All organs of government, saying:” We want Google to come here and want to be as painless as possible, “said Ron Boyer, director of the Department of Trade and Consumer Affairs. “In Hawaii, all the world is on board. What makes us unique.”
Frankly, Hawaii could use the help of Google.
Hawaii ranked 47th in rate of discharge throughout the country in 2009, depending on the speed of things, a website maintained by the Communications Workers of America, which is testing to compare connection speeds of Internet users.
Last year, the recommendations of a working group to improve the broadband has stalled in the legislature. This proposal would create an inspector to inspect the internet service providers broadband and the regulator for the installation of underground cables.
This year, legislators are considering a bill to simplify the study and research federal grants – a small first step, which would not result in increased speed of resident households in the short term.
“We’ll do some ‘dirty work,” said Sen. Carol Fukunaga, D-Lower Punchbowl-Makiko, president of economic development and technology. “If there is a possibility with Google, which would be a good test because we are so far apart.”
Hawaii has submitted its request to Google, Thursday, the day before the deadline for the company for municipal governments and citizens to express their interest. Winners will be announced later this year.
Google plans to select a small number of communities to test between 50,000 and 500,000 households.
Hawaii, but has lagged behind most of the nation-speed Internet access has improved difficulties are not unique to the United States, which ranks No 28 in the download speed in the world, depending on the issues of speed.
Asian and European countries, with a faster service of the Internet have often invested large sums of government money and has created networks that service providers to share access lines. In Hawaii and the rest of the United States, each society tends to create its own Internet network.
Contrary to popular belief, Hawaii does not have rich connectivity because of trans-Pacific cables, according to Hawaii in 2008, the Task Force report to broadband. All systems of fiber optic last built from 2001 linking Asia to the United States have bypassed Hawaii.
“We’re late,” said Dan Leuck, co-founder of high-technology outside Ikayzo and founder of TechHui, a social network for the technology industry in Hawaii. “The community is enthusiastic about the project of Google, but opinions diverge, as if we are not able to mobilize considerable coordination is needed.”
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