Chattanooga is known for many things – Rock City, the famous Chattanooga Choo Choo, and, having made a turnaround from being named the “dirtiest city in the US” to being one with electric shuttles downtown. What many people who are not from Chattanooga do not know is that we have the fastest internet service available in the country.
Google made waves a couple of years ago when they announced that they would be bringing a fiber network to one city. At that time, the Electric Power Board (EPB) in Chattanooga had already rolled out a fiber network. To think that Chattanooga beat Google to the punch is pretty amazing.
Originally, the EPB planned to use the fiber network to make restoring power after outages faster, but realized that the internet could be part of the plan as well. It took years of planning and work to bring together the funding and to get the cables installed, but once the work was done, Chattanooga became “the Gig City.”
CBS This Morning reported on the fiber network here in Chattanooga:
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