Past Reports

• 2010 : Seattle's response to Google's Request for Information (RFI) to build ultra-high speed broadband networks in communities across America (PDF)
• 2010: FTTH Conceptual Design for Testing Google Applications in a Typical City/County Model vs. the City of Seattle Model (PDF diagram)
• 2009 Information Technology Indicator Report
• 2008 CTC Report -
  Quantifying Business Case for Fiber-to-the-Premises in Seattle (PDF)
• 2007 Survey Report (PDF)
• 2007 Financial Feasibility Report (PDF)
• 2006 The City's Request for Information (PDF)
• 2006 Task Force Report (PDF)

Background

In 2004, Mayor Greg Nickels and the City Council established a citizen’s Task Force on Telecommunications Innovation to explore the feasibility of using the City’s broadband assets in a telecommunications network available to the public.

The Task Force concluded that the Seattle market lacks the competitive forces that will lead to a state of the art broadband network, and that fiber optic cable to the premises is the only technology available today to meet Seattle’s long-term needs.

Broadband Taskforce Web site (Archive)

In 2006, the City of Seattle issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking private partners to develop a state of the art fiber to the premises (FTTP) broadband network. Responses to the RFI were due on Friday, July 7, 2006.

Broadband RFI Response List (PDF)

In 2007, Former Mayor Greg Nickels directed City departments to move forward and take the next steps to making a competitive fiber broadband network in Seattle a reality.