Tempe: Ve vant das Googlefiber!

Tempe, at least, is aware of the potential of widespread ultrahighspeed fiber optic cable in town. Last month, the WSJ reported that Google was looking for a town to use as a test case to build out internet service with gigabyte-per-second download speed, or roughly 100 times faster than most folks currently have.

The company’s created a March 26 deadline for interested towns to apply.

Tempe’s idea, not a bad one, is to ask people to submit video ideas of what the town could do with such a service:

Tempe wants that fiber. We want it for our 175,000 residents, for our 175,000 workers, for our 4 million visitors who travel here annually for fun and business and for our 200,000 college students. Why do we want it? Tempe, Arizona is known for innovation. We think that the combined brain power of all these people, with this fiber, can change the world. We’ve already done so much.

You can help convince Google that Tempe is the best place to showcase their fiber. Tell us how you can change the world, or at least your corner of it, if you had access to the kind of speed that Google fiber promises.

That’s the spirit. PHXated would move to Tempe overnight if it pulled that off. But if it wants it it’s going to have to deal with Topeka first.