Be Active in the Community – Bring Google to Omaha

I am still trying to raise awareness of Google’s Fiber Internet access roll-out project. However I am not getting the traction I wanted. If you want really High speed Internet Access, for all the good it will do for You, the Omaha-Metro Economy and The Omaha-Metro Community, then you should do something. Take Action, tell your friends, tell your family, call people in power… do something.
 
Here is what I did, and what I think you should do: I called the Mayor’s Hotline, KPTM, WOWT, KETV, and The Omaha World Herald. I called the Mayor’s Hotline, because he is the big decision maker in town, and I contacted the news outlets because they can each reach all of Omaha rapidly.

This place could use some Incredibly fast internet

• The mayor’s hotline – (402) 444-5555
• The Omaha World Herald – (402) 444-1000
• KETV Channel 7 news – (402) 978-8954
• WOWT Channel 6 news – (402) 346-6666
• KPTM Channel 42 news – (402) 558-4282

 
This is what I did, but see what creative ways you can alert everyone in Omaha to Google’s Fiber Internet access plans. Tell them about how this could create jobs, how it could bring Videos into the home in seconds, How it could make Husker Games available anywhere at anytime, How, with the help of the medical community, it can be used to save lives and How it can do things I haven’t thought of but you will.
 
If you are talking to Google, this is also to their advantage. Since they already have an Office in Council Bluffs, they already have a staging point for planning. Since they want to service Internet Service Providers as well they can work with Cox and Qwest. They want Technically inclined home users and people to move away from dial-up, and we have plenty of people who want this and want to ditch their dial-up.
 
Any questions, drop me line at toppij@gmail.com or give me a call 402-714-7539. I would like to involve all of Omaha and the surrounding communities so give it your best shot, and if you would like to help but don’t know how, talk to me and we will work it out.
 
Also see my First post on bringing Google Fiber to Omaha and all my recent blog posts about Google Fiber in Omaha.