Comments for High Speed Jersey City

Comment 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.

Comment on For Businesses by Lucia Dawn

Lucia Dawn — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:05:35 +0000

We are a kitchen equipment dealer located in Warren, RI, and I am their project coordinator live and work from their Jersey city office.My communication is heavily depending on Internet.
Super fast internet connection = more time save = more productivity. Love it!!

Comment on For Community Groups by Johanna Wood

Johanna Wood — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:29:49 +0000

As a member of the Jersey City Craft Mafia and also a resident of the West Bergen section of Jersey City, I think this is a great way to bring the city together as a whole: give the whole community something we can be proud of. We *are* a special city. We've seen some really terrible times -- something that is unfortunately still very apparent in certain sections of the city. But the city as a whole is definitely in the midst of a renaissance (Exchange Place, Downtown, and now Journal Square and beyond!) and I think this is exactly what the city needs right now to help it reach its full potential! Johanna Wood Member of the Jersey City Craft Mafia Designer for Metal, Cloth & Wood

Comment on For Residents 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!

Comment on For Residents 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.

Comment on For Residents 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!

Comment on For Residents 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!

Comment on For Government by Mayor Jeremiah Healy

Mayor Jeremiah Healy — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:48:14 +0000

In the race to get Google's fiber optic network, Jersey City has created a public/private partnership between the City government and the residents. Please click to see a note from Jersey City's Mayor, Jeremiah Healy.

Comment on For Residents 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.

Comment on For Community Groups by Mia Scanga

Mia Scanga — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:55:34 +0000

Due to our proximity to NYC the New Jersey media market has been squeezed out in local coverage. Even though Jersey City is the 2nd largest city in NJ, with a population of over 250,000 we only have 1 local, daily newspaper which is a shadow of its former self. Most of the news articles in that paper are from the nationally syndicated AP.

Since May 2002 I’ve had a public access TV show broadcasting on Comcast but you must be a subscriber. The show, Talking Politics, is all about local politics and issues impacting everyone’s quality of life here. Typically I host a discussion format with candidates running for local and state offices but have done numerous shows on topics such as the Municipal Court system, Tax Abatements, the City’s Budget, local school budgetary issues etc…

Just in the last few years when video streaming became reasonably priced, has my show been accessible to more people since it streams off the Talking Politics website. Lower cost high speed internet access for all will add more viewers to Talking Politics, which will open up the issues to more people and create more dialogue. We need more dialogue. As Senator Patrick Moynihan said… “All politics is local”.

Mia Scanga
Talking Politics Executive Director & Producer