Dark Fiber Brightens Downtown Business Climate in Eugene Community Broadband Bits Podcast 263
b"Eugene is a good example of recent public-public partnerships developing to expand fiber optic Internet access. The city of 166,000 in Oregon helped finance a downtown dark fiber network by the Eugene Water and Electric Board (EWEB), which is publicly owned but has an independent governing board from the city.\\xa0Eugene's Economic Development Planner Anne Fifield and EWEB Engineering Technician Nick Nevins joined us for episode 263 of the Community Broadband Bits podcast to discuss the project and early results.We talk about what businesses have been the early adopters of the dark fiber availability, how it was financed, and how it has helped to fill downtown office locations with businesses.\\xa0Read the transcript of the show.We want your feedback and suggestions for the show-please\\xa0e-mail us\\xa0or leave a comment below.This show is 25\\xa0minutes long and can be played on this page or\\xa0via iTunes\\xa0or the tool of your choice\\xa0using this feed.You can download this mp3 file directly from here.\\xa0Listen to\\xa0other episodes here\\xa0or\\xa0view all episodes in our index.Thanks to Arne Huseby\\xa0for the music. The song is\\xa0Warm Duck Shuffle\\xa0and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license."