Publicly Funded Broadband and 802.11

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday February 24, 2002 @09:51PM 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.

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Getting priorities straight by hidden · 2002-02-25 01:02 · 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!)