{"id":3066,"date":"2007-10-25T17:12:38","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T17:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2007-10-25T17:12:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T17:12:38","slug":"broadband_netwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3066","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Networks Critical For Regional Viability, Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestbusiness.com\/news\/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=18229\">Jim Carlini<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If your municipality isn\u2019t looking at creative ways to develop new strategies that include having a state-of-the-art network infrastructure to support economic growth and development, they will be stagnating your property value and quality of life in your area. This was the message I conveyed in a speech on intelligent business campuses at the RTC last week.<br \/>\nSimply put, the three most important words in real estate (\u201clocation, location, location\u201d) have turned into \u201clocation, location, connectivity\u201d in urban, suburban and rural America.<br \/>\nCorporate site selection committees have included broadband connectivity as one of the top three criteria they are looking for when researching locations for corporate facilities. If your community does not have a good platform for broadband connectivity, it will simply be passed over in favor for one that does.<br \/>\nAs a keynote speaker, I also presented these concepts on Tuesday to an urban symposium at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee.<br \/>\nThe critical message is the same whether it is for a 5,000-person village in Virginia, a 50,000-person county in downstate Illinois or a 500,000-person city in Wisconsin: \u201cEconomic development equals broadband connectivity and broadband connectivity equals jobs.\u201d Without connectivity, there will be little economic development and little if any new jobs.<br \/>\nThe table below represents the layers of critical infrastructure that must be taken into account when reviewing regional opportunities.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestbusiness.com\/news\/viewnews.asp?newsletterID=18229\">Jim Carlini<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>If your municipality isn\u2019t looking at creative ways to develop new strategies that include having a state-of-the-art network infrastructure to support economic growth and development, they will be stagnating your property value and quality of life in your area. This was the message I conveyed in a speech on intelligent business campuses at the RTC last week.<br \/>\nSimply put, the three most important words in real estate (\u201clocation, location, location\u201d) have turned into \u201clocation, location, connectivity\u201d in urban, suburban and rural America.<br \/>\nCorporate site selection committees have included broadband connectivity as one of the top three criteria they are looking for when researching locations for corporate facilities. If your community does not have a good platform for broadband connectivity, it will simply be passed over in favor for one that does.<br \/>\nAs a keynote speaker, I also presented these concepts on Tuesday to an urban symposium at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Milwaukee.<br \/>\nThe critical message is the same whether it is for a 5,000-person village in Virginia, a 50,000-person county in downstate Illinois or a 500,000-person city in Wisconsin: \u201cEconomic development equals broadband connectivity and broadband connectivity equals jobs.\u201d Without connectivity, there will be little economic development and little if any new jobs.<br \/>\nThe table below represents the layers of critical infrastructure that must be taken into account when reviewing regional opportunities.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}