Memphis City Council dives in to Smart City fiber-optic proposal

By , Daily Memphian Updated: October 11, 2023 5:04 AM CT | Published: October 10, 2023 4:25 PM CT

Opposition to the plan for a fiber optic network at 1 gigabyte surfaced from Comcast in council committee sessions Tuesday, Oct. 10.

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Memphis City Council Smart City Fiber Access Systems Jim Strickland Martavius Jones Allan Wade

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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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