Publicly Funded Broadband and 802.11

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.

Comments

Re:Great pilot project

[Goofy Gavin]

well, i hope nobody decides to try learning from Gordon Campbell... head of the BC "liberals" who are the most acutely evil political party to rule in BC for many years. with the kinda budget they're running, you can expect them to be thinking of ways to "sell the internet", not bring publicly funded connections to the people.

Socialists

[jmu1]

Why is it not suprising that Canada is doing something like this? They are about two hops short of Communist Cuba as far as governmental control of facilities goes, albeit the US is close on their heels in the electric arena.
I'm just interested in why anyone would want the government to handle those sort of domestic industries.