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Where Is The Broadband?

Posted by timothy on from the mostly-in-south-korea dept.

gouldtj writes "First Monday is running an article in its current issue entitled: The many paradoxes of broadband. It discusses some of the issues and ideas behind broadband, but seems to focus on: Where is it? There is also a really nice discussion on the telecom industry in general, along with the .com boom."

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  1. Re:.com boom? by TonyZahn · · Score: 2, Redundant
    I thought it was explosions that made a "boom"; what sound does an implosion make?

    why, "moob" of course...

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  2. I'm Lucky - T1 but ..(Re:posted from 28.8 dialup) by jaredmauch · · Score: 0, Redundant
    So, I live in a fairly high-tech savvy town, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The area where I reside is out in Scio Township. I am a work at home employee for my company, and having moved out here last year went through quite an ordeal to get any sort of high speed connectivity. They needed to install a repeater shelf at a cost of somewhere around $3k, as well as use HSDL4 due to the distances involved. Mind you, I'm no more than 4 miles away from the nearest fiber hut as the roads drive, and the major street I'm near has fiber out there but it can't be used.

    My neighbors are all stuck behind 28.8k modems. I've tried to get the local cable company Comcast to bring their cable down the street but they are unwilling. There is no choice for DSL or anything else due to our "remote" location.

    This is after they (comcast) have moved their technical support out here (scio township). I'm still lobbying them to be required to provide service (I'd rather have cable so I can receive CBC and watch HNIC instead of the worse ESPN coverage and back myself up with a cable modem... I feel for my neighbors.