Santa Monica, California
Keeping Santa Monica on the cutting edge was a priority for Former City Manager Rod Gould. Called “Silicon Beach”, Santa Monica has become Southern California’s technology hub with its concentration of startups, accelerators, incubators, coworking spaces and venture capitalists.
Since March 2010, one of the key attractions that the City is able to offer to these businesses is its 10 Gigabit per second network, Santa Monica City Net. Providing the high capacity infrastructure that technology-based businesses now consider essential has been key in helping them keep their competitive edge in their industries.
Through City Net’s affordable broadband offerings, businesses have been attracted to relocate to Santa Monica, obtain cutting edge broadband for greater operational efficiencies, and still net savings from their current expenditures.
New service opportunities in telemedicine, education, tech, entertainment, and operational efficiencies are attributed to the fiber optic network. From industry leaders in tech and entertainment, to hotels and startup incubators, more than 120 businesses benefit from the broadband initiative. In today’s budget climate, the broadband initiative supports the City’s economic development and fiscal stability goals, generating $1M in annual revenue to offset all program costs and provide a net positive impact to the General fund.
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