There's many things holding back our great city in terms of economic development. I think one of the most important of those, is availability of technology (mainly internet infrastructure) throughout the city. In order to over come this, Fargo should take the following steps: 1.) Convince Midco (or another provider) to expand into the Fargo proper. CableOne is obviously holding the city back and I know many folks who choose to live in West Fargo or Moorhead over Fargo so they wouldn't have to deal with CableOne. Can you blame them though when you get twice the speed for less than you pay CableOne??? 2.) Get serious when opportunities such as Google Fiber come up. Fargo missed out BIG TIME on the opportunity to have a gigabit capable network deployed across the entire city that would've made us one of the fastest internet cities in America. 3.) Work with existing providers to integrate services into their existing infrastructure. If I'm not mistaken, AT&T and Qwest have 16 parallel OC-192 lines running through Fargo and across the state along I-94... do you know what kind of bandwidth that is??? OC192 - 9621.504 Mbit/s x 16 = 153944.064 Mbit/s = 19.243 GB/sec!!! You know how many data-centers we could host out of Fargo with that kind of pipe?