One of the world’s biggest radio networks highlighted Chattanooga over the weekend as a city that “is pioneering everyone’s future.”
In a 27-minute broadcast billed as “Chattanooga – the High Speed City,” the BBC’s Global Business report said Chattanooga’s high-speed, citywide Internet service has helped turn around an aging and dirty industrial town into a high-tech magnet for businesses from around the globe. BBC journalist Peter Day visited Chattanooga and aired interviews with a half dozen business and community leaders during the global broadcast, which first aired in London on Sunday.
Gig City – EPB “All over the world, the Internet has unleashed an extraordinary appetite for using data, which can only be satisfied with more and more bandwidth and faster and faster connectivity,” Day said. “It’s bound to come everywhere eventually. In other words, Chattanooga is pioneering everyone’s future.”
Day said Chattanooga has been “super charged” by its high-speed Internet and the attention and startup businesses that has attracted.
“Chattanooga seems to be becoming a cluster of new startup activity where businesses set up and test their products and services,” he said.