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Native American Wireless ISP Launched

Posted by simoniker on from the neat-stuff dept.

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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  1. Smoke Signals by Greenisus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...very slow bandwidth . . . .

  2. Netcraft confirms it.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad they ain't running Apache... maybe they've had bad experiences in the past?

  3. This is really wierd! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm starting to think my history teacher is psychic. Today, we watched Smoke Signals in class and now there is this in the news. Last week, we finished talking about Ronald Reagan, now he died. A while back, we talked about Elia Kazan in the 50's, within a week, he died. Wierd...

    I should get him to talk about Bill Gates...