Jan 14 2011
i3 America, the US subsidiary of i3 Group, has signed a deal with the city of Quincy to deploy a fiber-optic network across the city. The city’s Director of Planning and Development, Chuck Bevelheimer said that the city is required to ensure one more reference and talks between the parties have not yet commenced.
The City Council approved the company’s 30-day pilot project in September 2010 to deploy 1,300-feet fiber cable in municipal sewer channels throughout South 46th Street. The company laid the cable on the sewers’ bottom and enclosed it with mats, a method used by the company in the UK.
According to the meeting between i3 officials and the city’s Central Services Committee in September 2010, the installation would provide a normal service speed of up to 100 MB/s, which is 10 times faster than a conventional cable installation. The network speed could be increased up to 1 GB/s.
The company took videos of the sewer channels before the deployment of fiber-optic cable and assessed after it was deployed for the pilot project.
i3’s spokesperson Richard Tauberman said that the company and the city would negotiate the expenditures related with sedimentation of the fiber.
Houses will get fiber-optic service at no cost and cable operators would provide services including phone, cable and Internet via the network. i3 recently deployed a fiber-optic network for 68,000 businesses and houses across Dundee in Scotland.