The Success of Lit San Leandro
Lit San Leandro has been an outstanding success for the people and businesses of San Leandro . For those unfamiliar, in 2011, the City entered into a partnership with Pat Kennedy, the founder and former CEO of San Leandro -based OSIsoft. Kennedy had a dream of installing – at his own expense (not paid by OSIsoft) - optical fiber lines in City-owned conduit under our streets to bring high-speed broadband to San Leandro businesses. At the time, AT&T and Comcast dominated the San Leandro internet market. They did not compete. Slow and expensive were the defining characteristics of their internet service. Lit San Leandro , the name of the network created out of the partnership between Kennedy and the City, shattered AT&T and Comcast’s local duopoly. AT&T & Comcast were forced to offer deals and improve their services as hundreds of companies – 300 by 2013 – q...