The Top Internet Cities And The $6 Billion Broadband Stimulus
According to Forbes, Seattle is the new Internet King, replacing two-time winner Atlanta. Recently, Forbes published America’s Most Wired Cities, ranking the top 30 U.S. cities in several internet access categories. Seattle also took the top spot in availability of wi-fi access.
San Francisco had the largest percentage of internet users. Forbes claims the residents to be the most tech-savvy in the U.S.
The top city as far as high-speed options goes is Minneapolis. Some neighborhoods have as many as 20 high-speed providers! That’s sick!
The stimulus package that’s being floated around in the House and Senate has $6 BILLION in broadband and wireless infrastructure grants. Cha ching! Though industry experts were disappointed in the small number (They were expecting around $44 billion), an Obama advisor said this wasn’t the whole enchilada. There will be more to come. The exact wording of the broadband part of the stimulus:
Wireless and Broadband Grants: $6 billion for broadband and wireless services in under-served areas to strengthen the economy and provide business and job opportunities in every section of America with benefits to e-commerce, education, and healthcare. For every dollar invested in broadband the economy sees a ten-fold return on that investment.
So what does this mean for us domainers? More people on the net means more customers for us. Yea, sure, you won’t see a big boom in the next couple months, but it certainly appears to be a brighter near to distant future.
The Wall Street Journal says this stimulus is primarily aimed at rural and mountainous areas in the west. If that’s the case, I suppose you can expect residents of states like Idaho, Utah and Nevada to begin connecting at a fast pace, once the infrastructure is built of course. If you own some geosites in the areas largely targeted, you have plenty of time to prepare for your highly targeted surge of customers.
On to the lists. The following lists should be read if you are a geodomainer. They will be helpful in choosing the right cities if you are looking to purchase a geodomain related to the broadband/wireless industries. Who knows? you may just run into a HonoluluWireless.com at an auction or drop. While people may blow it off thinking it’s just Honolulu, you will know that it’s the 3rd best wireless city in America.
Overall
- Seattle
- Atlanta
- Washington, DC
- Orlando
- Boston
- Miami
- Minneapolis
- Denver
- New York
- Baltimore
Wi-fi (Public wireless internet hotspots per capita)
- Seattle
- Washington, DC
- Honolulu
- New Orleans
- Pittsburgh
- Portland
- Boston
- Los Angeles
- Minneapolis
- Atlanta
Broadband Adoption (Percentage of home internet users with high-speed)
- San Francisco
- San Diego
- Atlanta
- Boston
- Miami
- New York
- Phoenix
- Orlando
- Washington, DC
- Seattle
Access Options (Number of companies providing high-speed access)
- Minneapolis
- Seattle
- Atlanta
- New York
- Denver
- Baltimore
- Charlotte
- Nashville
- Raleigh
- Orlando
Noticeably absent was Houston, San Antonio and Dallas; they weren’t in the top 30. Austin was 30th overall.
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Thanks for sharing! It would be interesting to see statistics on the number of internet based businesses founded by citizens in each city, though I suppose that would be hard data to get.
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That would be nice to see. There has to be someone somewhere who has done this already. I’ll give it a shot at digging it up. Thanks!
-Scott