[IP] Country road, take me to the Internet superhighway, and fast

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

One should take a look at Fast Wave in Italy (Milan)

Djf

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From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 23:47:37 -0500

Country road, take me to the Internet superhighway, and fast

High speed access reaches rural Wash. via cable connections

By Eli Sanders, Globe Correspondent, 12/25/2002

EPHRATA, Wash. - On the lightly trafficked main street in this small,
rural town, one store is advertising something local residents had
never seen before: ''Internet Connections at the Speed of Light.''

The connections arrived due to an innovative program reminiscent of
the public power projects that brought electricity to much of the
West. With a nudge from federal, state, and local agencies, high
speed Internet service providers are reaching rural areas via extra
space on fiber-optic cables owned by public power providers. Bob
Lahmann, a transmission account executive at the Bonneville Power
Administration, said that bringing broadband to the hinterlands
seemed like a natural for the federally chartered agency.

...

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/359/nation/Country_road_take_me_to_the_Int
ernet_superhighway_and_fast+.shtml


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