Comments on: For Residents

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:09:47 +0000

Did someone say faster Internet? I am all for empowering the current residents. Where do we sign up? Instead of changing the neighbourhoods by carting in the rich, we need to provide resources for current population and maintain the diversity. I am a long term resident and a parent, with an entrepreneural spirit. Am I excited? You bet! There are so many possibilities. Bringing a much needed technology boost to the public school system can only lead to better things. This is a very good reason for starting my own health food business. By improving the variety of businesses in the area we boost the economy.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:08:23 +0000

Are you kidding me? What wouldn’t I do! I would do everything I do faster and have more time to eat, shop, play and take in our awesome views of NYC!

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:57:07 +0000

I live and work in Jersey city. At home: being able to send and receive files faster is an exciting prospect. Sending pictures and videos to family across the country would be great.

At work: I work in higher education. Faculty and administrators are barely able to keep up with students’ tech savvy, and our bandwidth can’t possibly keep pace with exponentially expanding applications on the web.

By: Jayne Freeman

Jayne Freeman — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:36:57 +0000

Six years ago I started a public access show here in Jersey City called “Mamarama” about being a parent. Though it’s great to be on cable television clearly the future of my show resides on the web. I am creating content that can only be accessed via the internet and super high-speed would be an amazing way to kick off the launch! Everyone would benefit. Incidentally, Jersey City is a great community with folks from every ethnic and socio-economic background you could imagine. Plus we are right outside New York City, so our influences and influence are sophisticated, yet urban and gritty. I cannot think of a better community with which to test-drive this project!

By: robert

robert — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:11:46 +0000

it’s definitely time to have another choice from the crap service of comcast. nothing but good can come from this. being right across the river from NYC makes us the perfect community to test this new service!

By: Darien

Darien — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:57:27 +0000

Faster internet now! I’m tired of hearing about how much faster the internet is in Japan and South Korea.

By: Dale Hardman

Dale Hardman — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:50:34 +0000

As part of the downtown community, I know of many neighborhood, health, educational and municipal apps that could be made possible with 1Gig FTTH. As a principal in a startup, there are uses we would have too if JC was selected by Google for their test and roll-out. I look forward to hearing that we have made the cut as we share a cultural diversity, un-used dark fiber, mature infrastructure and public transit that exceeds any applicant.Lastly, Jersey City is indeed the world and as said elsewhere here, “Deploy it here and you can deploy it everywhere.”

By: Steven Fulop

Steven Fulop — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:36:26 +0000

As a councilman in Jersey City it would be great to have an added differentiator when exploring new business opportunities for the city and also gauging its impact on existing schools, universities, and infrastructure.

On the business front, Jersey City offers many advantages from a competitive standpoint today; however the Google aspect would be an added dimension that could possibly attract new business. Personally, I would look to leverage this point and assess how enticing it truly is for prospective businesses (comapring new business that decide to open versus historic similar business that have passed) to have cutting edge infrastructure in the place they choose to do business. The information the city can gain from this will shape future investments, partners, and dollars spent.

From a existing government infrastructure standpoint, the most interesting aspect of this opportunity is seeing how we can leverage faster access to information to enhance the educational experience in our schools and deliver better constituent services through the use of a faster open platform

By: Optrix

Optrix — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:22:18 +0000

I’m in. Comcast or Comcrap is abysmal. Internet without walls the way it should be.
A myriad of opportunities for personal business growth lie within. Jersey city could use the publicity. This seems to have a great deal of upside. I would like to know the potential drawbacks. It appears is at least worth a shot.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 05:46:22 +0000

I can play my games faster and get off the computer faster so i can spend time with my wife and kid. The Service i have now is constantly going down,lagging and that leads to me being frustrated and wife nagging me to get off. So you could imagine if i faster internet, my life would be peaceful!!!