City CIO wants to use broadband stimulus for open access fiber and free Wi-Fi
Jory Wolf, the CIO of the city of Santa Monica, California, says that the city has applied for $1 million in federal funding from the NTIA to provide ISPs in the Los Angeles area a connection to the city’s open fiber optic network. Unlike many cities which do not lease fiber capacity to service providers because they stupidly signed an agreement with the local cable company or the incumbent telco preventing them from doing so, Santa Monica wants to do the opposite and lower the cost of backhaul (the middle mile) for these ISPs so that they in turn can provide cheaper, faster broadband to their customers. Jory says that the city’s policy of laying down fiber whenever they do roadway public works projects (e.g. street repairs, sewer and water installations) has created a robust fiber optic network that ISPs can also use.
In addition to providing connections to ISPs, Santa Monica also wants to offer free Wi-Fi access in public libraries, community and senior centers. This is not a plan to blanket the city with free Wi-Fi, rather a targeted deployment similar to that in Hong Kong where the city provides free Wi-Fi access around government buildings, sports centers, etc.
Read the interview with Jory Wolf, CIO of the city of Santa Monica, CA.
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