• Local business could coordinate with Marshall University to help bring new research to market faster.
  
  
• Companies could use Google Sketch-up to prototype products and share the models online using their own drawing warehouse; the speed of google fiber would make this much more efficient.
  
  
• Having it here would lure high tech companies to the region which would spawn additional companies to support them which would, obviously, generate a wide assortment of jobs.
  
  
• Telecommuting and flexible scheduling would become a reality as everyone would have access to world-class internet speeds at their home.
  
  
• Companies could move their document management and storage into the cloud using something like Google Apps for Domains.  This would instantly increase the collaboration of a companies workforce
  
  
• Critical Data backups could happen nightly to an offsite location providing an amazing level of data security in the event of a fire or other disaster.  Plus, that company could restore from their backup just as quickly meaning just because their physical location was lost they wouldn't necessarily their business.
  
  
• Companies could collaborate to with each other to bring new products and services to market faster than ever before.
  
  
• Companies could move their email and other in-house maintained services to the cloud saving money, time, and maintenance headaches.
  
  
• Field sales representatives could process their sales reports and call logs much faster thus enabling the company to leverage data in a more timely fashion
  
  
• High Def teleconferencing could become a reality
  
  
• By having an asset like Google Fiber here more college grads would look here for work first before considering moving elsewhere.
  
  
• It will be much easier to attract and retain talent into the area with Google Fiber as one of our selling points as a city.
  
  
• With an incredible internet connection your market, even if you are in a service industry, can grow to a much larger area.
  
  
• With 1 Gb/s speed you can connect to your computer at the office from your computer at home and fix a critical issue without driving back to the office.

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