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Blog Entry: BLOOMINGTON - Twin City leaders say trying to become a Google "ultra-high speed" community is a long shot worth taking. The Internet giant is fishing for proposals for where to build an experimental fiber-optic network with Internet speeds 100 times faster than most people use - more than 1 gigabit per second - at what the company said will be a competitive price to customers. Tottenham "They are going to get thousands of these applications," said Marty Vanags, who heads the Economic Development Council of the Bloomington-Normal Area. Nominations are due March 26. Winners will be announced in 2011. Vanags is applying for the Google contest on behalf of the cities of Bloomington and Normal and the nonprofit Central Illinois Regional Broadband Network. He also has helped the broadband network group in its efforts to jewelry-r secure a nearly $20 million federal stimulus broadband grant to build a backbone high-speed network to connect Central Illinois organizations. The paperwork for the federal grant also is due March 26, said network organizer Scott Genung of Illinois State University. "I think this Google (offer) is very complementary to the CIRBN proposal. Both are not a reality yet, but it took us nine years to get the multimodal center," said Vanags, referring to uptown Normal's transportation center that recently received federal funding. He said the Bloomington-Normal area should doggedly pursue funding Nike AF1 Shoes to create a better broadband network here in the same way groups banded together to secure funding for the transportation center. "The key in these sorts of things is persistence," he added. Google's been vague about its contest, but several thousand municipalities have jumped at the chance to win, including nearby Peoria. Google has said the project would bring affordable access to the network for 50,000 to 500,000 households. Other articles: http://www.kolspot.com/blog/view/id_1873/title_Ralph-I-Nesler/ http://www.zhengtoo.cn/bbs/Blog.asp?BlogUserName=windows&menu=ShowBlog&BlogID=802
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