Forbes: Most Wired Cities Top three: Atlanta, Seattle, Raleigh... Atlanta won top honors the second year in a row in the Forbes list of the nation's most wired (or unwired as the case may be) cities. Hometown to Cox, Earthlink and the former standalone BellSouth, some of Atlanta's infrastructure came from its preparation to host the 1996 Olympics. Don't cry if your city didn't make it; much of the data for these kinds of lists comes from the FCC, who haven't got the faintest clue how wired America actually is. Forbes explains exactly how Atlanta earns the honor: To calculate our list, we looked at the percentage of Internet users with high-speed access, the range of service providers within a city and the availability of public wireless hot spots. Atlanta ranks highest in broadband adoption, access options and fourth in wi-fi availability. According to Nielsen Online, 97.2% of the city's home Internet users accessed the Web via a high-speed connection in November. Seattle, Raleigh, San Francisco, Baltimore, Orlando, Charlotte, Chicago, New York and Portland round out the top ten (in order). According to Forbes, cities that didn't make the U.S. Census Bureau's top 100 list (Salt Lake City) were dropped from the list.
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  MrMoodyFree range slavePremium
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Smithfield, NC | Makes sense, sort of Seattle, Raleigh and SF are all big IT cities. Baltimore, though?
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|  | | | Re: Makes sense, sort of I think McNulty runs a WISP. | |
| | | | | Re: Makes sense, sort of Is this a "The Wire" joke? | |
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Northwood, OH | Not suprised Most of the "Most Wired" Cities are also the largest cities. No surprise to me. Too bad the city I live in is too much of a dung heap to even be listed. | |
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Santa Cruz, CA | Re: Not suprised said by wruckman:Most of the "Most Wired" Cities are also the largest cities. No surprise to me. Too bad the city I live in is too much of a dung heap to even be listed. They also seem to be crossroad/hub's between area's because of their geographic location's. | |
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kudos:12 |  Raleigh?
I guess the high ranking is due to the proximity to Universities and the Research Triangle Park. (which is really in Durham, but everyone calls everything around there Raleigh) | |
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Smithfield, NC | Re: Raleigh? I'm sure "Raleigh" includes the entire market: Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill etc. I imagine part of the ranking is due to unusually high penetration, EVERYONE around here has broadband.
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Raleigh, NC | said by Matt:Interesting. Raleigh has 2 basic choices for High Speed, AT&T or Time Warner ... I have more choices where I live. Even if there are more providers in other cities, it's not like any individual home will actually have a choice of any provider - they'll be limited to whoever has wire build out to their home, usually the telco and the local cable franchise.
BTW, Raleigh is still BellSouth when it comes to DSL service. We're still waiting for AT&T to rollout their pricing here  | |
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Seattle, WA | Seattle?? Lies. All Lies. Wired with What? Most amount of people with wiring in their homes? Can't be broadband connectivity. The fastest we've got in seattle is crapcastics deployment. We don't even have fiber yet | |
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Atlanta, GA | Re: Seattle?? haha -- that's exactly what I said about atlanta. And with Comcast's wonderful customer service -- you're lucky if you a)get what's advertised or b)even what you're paying for. | |
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kudos:2 | Yeah I agree the Seattle view has got to be skew'd. While Seattle is a big telecommunications city, and the Westin Building is pretty much the hub for all traffic in Northwest & beyond (Alaska, some links to Japan/N Asia), the actual broadband options available to people and businesses is pretty lame.
Qwest has their DSL, and Comcast has their powerboost. What else is there? All the other options are a bit unrealistic: Speakeasy WiMax which costs as much per mbit as telco T1, and oh I guess there's probably some Covad mixed in there somewhere... but overall from a consumer POV I don't think Seattle is anything special when it comes to broadband. | |
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