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The irrepressible Malcolm Matson put together
these memorable quotes about the role of
advanced networks within communities for
his great eComm presentation a couple of
weeks ago.

Amsterdam Deputy-Mayor
Mark van der Horst:

".... we make a big step towards the
deployment of a citywide fiber-to-the-home
network. This enables our city to compete with
other European cities. The fiber network
delivers to Amsterdam an innovative and freely
accessible open infrastructure, suitable to
support growth in demand for the next 30 years
or more. In this way we ensure a wide open
marketplace for innovative service-providers
and economic growth, as well as a fast track for
the smarter and cheaper delivery of care,
education and other public services."

City of Amsterdam Press Release, Nov. 3, 2005

Eindhoven Mayor
Alexander Sakkers:

"In 2004 the Dutch government gave to the
Eindhoven Region/Southeast Brabant, the
title of BRAINPORT because the economic
identity of our region is defined by high-
tech research and development and
production activities. We believe that the
development of an open public local
access network to serve the community is
vital to it remaining globally competitive in
the 21st century knowledge economy"

Panayiotis Tzanikos
Former Mayor
Municipality of Amaroussion
Athens , Greece:

"We feel that we are entering a period when
towns and regions will compete with each other
and one of the key parameters in the
competitiveness of the city is
telecommunications. ... I think that the level of
what we are getting [from the conventional
telecommunications sector] is not enough to
equip the city for the next generation which is
coming..... we feel that the way they [the
telecoms operators] operate they keep the
citizens, the businesses, the social groups,
outside of the new era which is arriving so they
do not have the motive to use the network to
make new things, new creations and services."

OpenPlanet interview October 2005


Councillor John Robinson
Hull City Council, United Kingdom:

"It is essential that the city of Hull has an open
public local access network if it is to solve its
social and economic problems resulting from
older industries like fishing being replaced by
the knowledge economy. We need to compete
with other cities in attracting inward investment
and ensuring that those who live and work in
and around Hull enjoy the highest level of public
services -which must be underpinned by an
open access 4th utility."

OpenPlanet interview October 2008

Mayor, Seltjarnarnes, Iceland
Jonmundur Gudmarsson:

"We need to increase the competitiveness of
our community and to preserve and improve the
inhabitants quality of life and to maintain and
increase the value of their property. An open
public local acess fibre network delivered by
a partnership with the public sector is key to
achieving this. I am proud to say that as a
result of decisions and actions, Seltjarnarnes
will be the first community in Iceland - if not the
whole of Europe - to have 100% of its homes,
businesses and buildings connected to an open
access fibre network"

INECconferenceStockholmNovember2006

Prime Minister of Singapore
Lee Hsien Loong:

Singapore government intends to put in place
"a new national broadband network that is
much faster than what is available today.
It will offer fast, efficient connectivity to all
- in schools, in offices and homes, and even
on the move. It will help us plug into the
global knowledge grid, and stay competitive
with other cities."

Budget Speech, February 17, 2006

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