Mesa's Focus on Dig Once and Fiber Leases Pays Off Community Broadband Bits Podcast 139
b'Arizona\'s city of Mesa is one of the largest communities in the nation to benefit from the city taking role in ensuring conduit and fiber are available throughout the area. This week we talk with Alex Deshuk, the city\'s Manager of Technology and Innovation that was brought on in 2008.\\n\\nWe talk about how Mesa has, for longer than a decade, ensured that it was putting conduit in the ground and making fiber available to independent providers as needed to ensure they had multiple options around town and especially to select areas where they wanted to encourage development.\\n\\nHaving this fiber available has helped to encourage high tech investment, including the new Apple Global Command Center. \\n\\nRead the transcript from this episode here.\\n\\nWe want your feedback and suggestions for the show - please e-mail us or leave a comment below. \\n\\nThis show is 20 minutes long and can be played below on this page or via iTunes or via the tool of your choice using this feed. \\n\\nListen to previous episodes here. You can can download this Mp3 file directly from here.\\n\\nFind more episodes in our podcast index.\\n\\nThanks to Persson for the music, licensed using Creative Commons. The song is "Blues walk."'