Unofficial nicknames include "River City", "Chatt", "Nooga", "Chattown", and "Gig City", the latter a reference to its claims that it has the fastest internet service in the Western Hemisphere. Its official nickname is the "Scenic City", alluding to the surrounding mountains, ridges, and valleys.
It is 118 miles (190 km) northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, 112 miles (180 km) southwest of Knoxville, Tennessee, 134 miles (216 km) southeast of Nashville, Tennessee, 102 miles (164 km) east-northeast of Huntsville, Alabama, and 147 miles (237 km) northeast of Birmingham, Alabama.ĭivided by the Tennessee River, Chattanooga is at the transition between the ridge-and-valley Appalachians and the Cumberland Plateau, both of which are part of the larger Appalachian Mountains. Chattanooga remains a transit hub in the present day, served by multiple Interstate highways and railroad lines. Today, major industry that drives the economy includes automotive, advanced manufacturing, food and beverage production, healthcare, insurance, tourism, and back office and corporate headquarters. After the war, the railroads allowed for the city to grow into one of the Southeastern United States' largest heavy industrial hubs. It anchors the Chattanooga metropolitan area, Tennessee's fourth-largest metropolitan statistical area, as well as a larger three-state area that includes Southeast Tennessee, Northwest Georgia, and Northeast Alabama.Ĭhattanooga was a crucial city during the American Civil War, due to the multiple railroads that converge there. With a population of 181,099 in 2020, it is Tennessee's fourth-largest city and one of the two principal cities of East Tennessee, along with Knoxville. It is located along the Tennessee River, and borders Georgia to the south. "Our costs are much less, but then I don't have to pay for 27 lobbyists in Nashville like AT&T does," Thornton quipped.37401-37412, 37414-37416, 37419, 37421-37422, 37424, 37450Ĭhatype, the typeface used by ChattanoogaĬhattanooga ( / ˌ tʃ æ t ə ˈ n uː ɡ ə/ CHAT-ə- NOO-gə) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States. Thornton said when he approached AT&T about providing Gig service to Jasper Highlands he was quoted a price of $1.3 million to serve his mountaintop development - more than three times what it ended up costing Thornton to build his own network connected to Alabama. They do not actually innovate anymore because they spend their resources maintaining a monopoly and not creating a better product. The fact of the matter is that these big companies are unable to see beyond their strangleholds. So here’s some real capitalist, free-market type stuff. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, chief sponsor of the bill to allow municipal broadband service across Tennessee, blamed pressure by AT&T's 27 paid lobbyists in Nashville for killing her proposals. He lost to the bigger money of the telecoms. He’s calling the place “Gig Mountain.” Thornton tried to support the initiative to expand the municipal created broadband. Using the fiber optic system that the North Alabama Electric Coop created to help set up a Google data site at the shuttered Widows Creek coal plant, Thornton announced Thursday his Jasper Highlands near Kimball, Tenn., is now able to offer high-speed, gigabit-per-second Internet service for all home sites in his 3,000-acre complex. The private developer spent more than $400,000 to build his own fiber network and link it with a power cooperative in Stevenson, Ala., where fast broadband is available. Unable to gain high-speed broadband at what he deemed an affordable price from AT&T or Charter Communications and limited from service extensions from EPB's ultra-fast Internet in Chattanooga, Thornton created his own Internet service provider last year. Their claims also used the airtight logic of a madman living inside of a Terry Gilliam film. All of this leads us back to land developer John “Thunder” Thornton: They lost all of their lawsuits because all of their lawsuits were lies based in bigger lies, on top of a corporate lawyer sitting on Pinocchio’s nose. Unfortunately, Comcast isn’t the only telecom with monopoly greeds needs and so AT&T launched their corporate hyena squad-and threw around some big money-at and into Chattanooga. Feels that squeezing out resources is best done for a profit and with no regard towards the betterment of humanity.
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