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Publicly Funded Broadband and 802.11

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wave-of-the-future dept.

bflame writes: "The Canadian province of Alberta is building the infrastructure to provide highspeed internet service to 422 cities. The government of Alberta along with Cisco Networks, Microsoft and Axia will be installing highspeed fiber optic lines to link 422 cities. The contracts also required competition among ISPs to insure lower internet costs. Cisco provides a nice write up in IQ magazine. Globe Technologies is reporting that work has started on the Alberta Supernet. The government of Alberta has an article about the supernet along with this article." We've mentioned Alberta earlier - nice to see they're moving ahead with the project. And an anonymous reader sent in a link about the city of Tallahasee rolling out a public WLAN.

14 of 198 comments (clear)

  1. FP!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    first post??!?!?!? Local shop for local people...

  2. Re:No, you fucking faggot piece of shit. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


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  4. Re:Heheheh.. by gerf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    omg... in a funny way, but i didn't expect to see something like that on /.

  5. 422 CITIES? by Alan+Partridge · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    in Alberta? WTF is this story all about?

    --
    That was classic intercourse!
  6. Re:422 CITIES? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    how is that a troll, fucko? so he points out that there can't be 422 cities - just shows that the story is fucked up as usual. 422 communities. suck my bell end moderator boy

  7. Re:spelling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    either is acceptable.

  8. Re:This is a Good Thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And what, exactly, is wrong with midget porn? Is this another one of those "My kink is OK, your kink is sick" kind of discussions? Hmmm?

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  9. Re:That is one seriously smart move by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, sure, come on over! Just pray to God you don't get sick and have to spend time in one of our hospitals!

  10. Re:422�Cities? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    aksjdflkajfd

  11. Getting priorities straight by hidden · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Speaking as an Albertan
    Yes, this is a cool tech project, yadda yadda.

    However, the alberta government is doing this at the same time as they are introducing budget cuts to other little things like hospitals... The public school teachers are on strike (and the government claims there isn't any more money to pay them)... if we killed this project, I wonder if all the money that is going into this could do some real good, in more essential areas

    (I mean, it's not exactly hard to get high speed internet in most of the province already!)

  12. Re:This is a Good Thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Governments don't like to pay for other porn either.

  13. so are there lots of jobs out there? by underpaidISPtech · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    because the Vancouver job market is dead as a doornail. Can anyone in AB testify to more jobs being there, I'll move back no problem....or is it more gov't work?

  14. Re:This is a Good Thing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I had any modpoints now I'd mod this up