Native American Wireless ISP Launched

babynerd writes "On Tuesday June 1st the Coeur dAlene tribe unveiled the Turbocharged Broadband Geek Project. The scheme, organized by project head Valerie Fast Horse and funded by a $2.8 million dollar grant from the USDA Rural Utilities Service and a 15% in kind match from the tribe itself, will help build a community technology center (CTC) with 40 computers, and a wireless broadband ISP that will provide high-speed wireless access to anyone living on and near the reservation at a price comparable to that of any other DSL or Cable Internet providers - there's currently no broadband Internet access of any kind available."

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Re:what are those mini-Vegas' for?

[TheGavster]

At least in Connecticut, the state pays for the roads, and the neighboring towns cover the schools and the extra police to keep their out-of-control gangster children from killing people (they actually beat someone nearly to death outside a school, and assaulted a police officer on the grounds of a school). The millions that they roll in each day pretty much go to the weekly pair of hundred-dollar Nikes for the aforementioned kids, and of course the large number of congresspersons that it takes to keep such an operation tax free.