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Country road, take me to the Internet superhighway, and fast
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 05:19:38 -0500
One should take a look at Fast Wave in Italy (Milan) Djf ------ Forwarded Message 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 ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To unsubscribe or update your address, click http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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