Earlier this week city of Austin leaders committed to doing everything in their power to lure the internet giant Google to the Capitol City as one of its experimental cities trying out an ultra high-speed fiber line.
Austinites who support the move say it's now the citizens of Austin's turn to show their support.
"The successful city that gets the Google gigabit fiber network will have not only a strong response from the city but a strong response from the community," said Chip Rosenthal at a public forum Wednesday night at Austin City Hall.
The forum was a chance for the community to learn more about what Google is proposing to do.
Google wants to choose between 50,000 and 100,000 households nationwide to experiment with an ultra high speed fiber line which is supposed to be 100-times faster than the conventional service.
It's not clear how many other cities besides Round Rock are competing to be chosen as a test city.
The city created a website called Big Gig Austin.org so citizens have a place to go to learn about Google's proposal and to let the web giant know why Austin should be chosen as one of the test cities.
"You know it's a big corporation, they have a lot of power a lot of money and the city has to just make sure that everything is right.", said Joel Paige, a citizen who showed up at Wednesday night's forum.
This would be a fiber to the home network, one gigabit per second, 100-times the speed of typical broadband.
"We're the top in a lot of things. We're tops in music, we're tops in technology so I think it's important for us to whether or not you're a fan of the large corporation, whether or not you think it's the right thing to do at least explore it and give your city a chance to participate.", said Logan Boyd, an Austin I.T. worker.
Citizen input should be sent to Google no later than March 26th.
For more information click here: http://www.biggigaustin.org/
