Google: Rocky Mount (Twin Counties) is the Ideal Test MarketRocky Mount Mayor David Combs
for Your Fiber Optic Trial!
Please Select Us as a Pilot Community;
for Our Families & Our Future!
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Why Select Rocky Mount & the Twin Counties? We . . .
- Have received enormous support from our community of approximately 60,000 with 607 Online Nominations submitted directly to Google and 853 Phone & Social Media Supporters as of 2:00 PST on March 26th, as well as many video nominations to Google through our YouTube Channel, Twin County Gold (http://www.youtube.com/user/TwinCountyGold)
- Are ideally located at the central intersection of the Eastern U.S., just off of I-95, one of the most travelled highways in the United States (http://www.rockymountnc.gov/econdev.html)
- Have one of the busiest railroad corridors in the Eastern U.S.
- Have survived one of the most devastating natural disasters in our nation's history, Hurricane Floyd (http://www.rockymountnc.gov/floyd.html)
- Lost major industries in the textile and agricultural fields and now struggle to attract high tech industry due to our limited infrastruture to support their technology needs
- Have the highest Unemployment Rate in the State in Edgecombe County (17.30% with 4,272 unemployed; http://www.wral.com/news/state/page/4879060 / )
- Focus on providing quality education for our children despite technology limitations (http://www.rockymountnc.gov/education.html); children are provided laptops, however, often cannot access internet at home (http://www.ncmagazine.com/stories/laptop-initiative-energizes-edgecombe-schools)
- Are unable to leverage the advantages of distance and online learning to improve our skilled labor force due to limited internet access and bandwith availability
- Have an award-winning facility in our Imperial Centre for the Arts & Sciences (recognized by NASA) with no internet access (http://www.imperialcentre.org/)
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