CTAC President Bill Coleman was recently quoted on Minnesota Public Radio for a story on Google’s Network competition. Here is what he said about the benefits of a ultra high speed broadband connection, such as the one Google is proposing…

The network would be 10 times faster than today’s state-of-the-art networks, such as a 100-megabit system in Lafayette, La. It could dramatically expand the way people communicate, said Bill Coleman, director of Community Technology Advisors in Mahtomedi, which advised Duluth.

“That kind of network would allow a teacher to be in a classroom, really anywhere, and have high-definition broadcast out to students sitting in their homes doing that kind of work,” Coleman said. “So, it could really transform a community. And I think the companies that create those applications would flock to the winning community, to roll out those applications in kind of a test laboratory.”