{"id":6239,"date":"2015-02-16T09:25:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6239"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:25:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T15:25:06","slug":"behind-the-municipal-broadband-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6239","title":{"rendered":"Behind the municipal broadband battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Allan Holmes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

JB: Sounds like it\u2019s a big deal, but fast Internet and slow Internet, those can be abstract ideas so lay things out for me clearly: what can people do in Tullahoma that they can\u2019t do in other parts of the state?
 
 AH: In Tullahoma, there\u2019s a small startup software company called Agisent, it actually moved from South Carolina to Tullahoma because Tullahoma\u2019s very fast, it\u2019s a gigabit network, one of the fastest in the world. For a town of 18,000 that\u2019s pretty impressive. And also it\u2019s very reliable and that\u2019s what this company called Agisent needs. What they do is they provide a web document management service to police departments, prisons, courts typically; they are small to medium sized departments that can\u2019t afford their own IT expert to manage their networks so that\u2019s really important to them that they can do that in Tullahoma.
 
 That\u2019s fine for Agisent. But then you go outside of Tullahoma, you just drive like 3, 4, 5 miles outside of Tullahoma into this suburban area where there are some very nice homes, and they don\u2019t have Internet access. They don\u2019t even have AT&T, U-verse or Charter Communications which is another telecom there who provides service in Tullahoma. They don\u2019t serve this area. And ran into a fellow named Matt Johnson, he is an entrepreneur, he started up a company called Road Rage Gauges, which are gauges that you put in your truck or high performance car to measure how it\u2019s performing so you don\u2019t overtax your engine or damage it in some way. What he did was he spent $2,000 rigging up a system so that he could get wireless access, but that\u2019s just way too slow for him. He has clients in China and South Africa and Germany that he has to talk to and when we visited him at his home, this is what he told us about his experience:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Allan Holmes: JB: Sounds like it\u2019s a big deal, but fast Internet and slow Internet, those can be abstract ideas so lay things out for me clearly: what can people do in Tullahoma that they can\u2019t do in other parts of the state?  AH: In Tullahoma, there\u2019s a small startup software company called Agisent, it actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239"}],"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=6239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6240,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6239\/revisions\/6240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}