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Utah Cities To Provide High-Speed Net Access
Instarx writes "The New York Times reports that Salt Lake City and other Utah cities plan to install an ultrahigh-speed optical network as a public utility project starting next year. The network would provide internet access [for about $28 per month] in direct competition to slower commercial offerings. The network would be capable of delivering data over the Internet to homes and businesses at speeds 100 times faster than current commercial residential offerings. It would also offer digital television and telephone services through the Internet."
They don't explicitly talk about upstream bandwidth so I'll play the cynic and assume the worst.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
With SCO in Lindon attracting tons of DoSes and continuous Slashdotting and getting millions of megs of subpoenaed documents in Word format, I bet they're putting a strain on the entire state's innurnet infrastructure.
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Did you see that burn mark by the I-15 on Point of the Mountain? that's the fiber optic running underground to Canopy
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
This is the best news yet!
Go back to your dial-up mere mortals. Leave us all the more bandwith to download the 1,001 Linux distro ISO's out there.
-- taking over the world, we are.
Arnie is afraid that such a high-speed network will lead to Skynet becoming self-aware.
Gee, this is really nice guys, except one slight problem... You have TO LIVE IN FREAKIN UTAH!!!
Lame
Isn't the internet illegal there?
Higher speed means the ability to order more wives on those online mail order bride sites. It's Utah, you know.
and only half a brain.
*sigh*
You got Comcast too??