Smart Valley, an initiative that has the support of Intel Corp., is getting ready to seek offers from companies interested in designing a high-speed wireless data network that would cover California's high-tech Mecca Silicon Valley.
The organization, which also includes the Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network and the San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority, said this week that it had signed an agreement to develop a request for proposal for the project.
The Smart Valley initiative envisions a broadband canopy covering a 1,500 square mile area stretching from Fremont in the East Bay, south to Gilroy, over the hill to Santa Cruz, and up the Peninsula to San Mateo.
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There needs to be unified community effort like this. Broadband in US is so crappy, and something needs to be done about it.
