Dianah Neff Quotations

We're getting a wonderful national and international reputation just by announcing we're doing this. It helps put Philadelphia on the map.

Only about 10% of our low income neighborhoods have Internet connectivity and about 90% of higher income neighborhoods have connectivity. The goal is to give everyone equal access.

We believe that affordable access to the Internet will help us do so. To be a city of the 21st century you need to have your populace able to use Internet.

We will be able to keep the network fresh and able to meet the latest standards. Our intent and goal is to keep it state-of-the-art.

This is about bringing economic vitality to underserved communities. We're changing the face of the city.

It's a fast technology. You don't have to dig up streets.

The beauty of the technology is that the intelligence is in the devices. The mounting of the equipment can happen very quickly so depending on how harsh a winter the entire network could be ready even sooner than the fall. That's what we are learning from these pilots, what is takes to install and maintain the equipment.