Unique Broadband Over Powerline Project Planned For Mosques

Lucas123 writes "Broadband over powerline (BPL) provider Velchip is heading up a project that will offer 60 million very unique network users an unlimited high speed Internet connection of 224Mbps at a cost of only around RM5 ($1.58) per user per month. That's the cheapest, fastest internet connection in the world. The network is slated for use in the $14 billion 'Smart Mosque' project, which will be rolled out over three years in Indonesia and will link together 400,000 mosques. To add some perspective, in the US Verizon FiOS currently offers up to 30 Mbps downloads and 5 Mbps uploads starting at $42.99 a month. BPL modems use existing electrical power lines to deliver high speed Internet access and data transmission."

Comments

Weird

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, this can't work since "Smart Mosque" is essentially an oxymoron. I mean, Islam is the most backwards religion out there (of the big 3/4). This would probably only be used to further spread propaganda or post Bin-Laden tapes to youtube.

best counter-terrorism idea ive seen so far....

[Anonymous Coward]

Bundle a service that every Muslim/Mosque will use, with a high risk terrorism threat such as the power grid, Powergrid = safe then :) We should do that here, and we should all become a part of the global sharia-net.... All images have been disabled by default as its against the law to publish images of humans or Muhammad.... Text based internet... maybe someone will post Muhammad ascii pron to the site so i guess we cant have text or images on any sharia-net websites.... damn

Re:Could someone enlighten me?

[thefoul]

I think this is a great way to enlighten people and broaden their experience of the world. Wake up buddy, since when is any religion interested in it's people being enlightened in any other way than the one the leaders are instructing?! That's not enlightenment, it's indoctrination. Religious groups don't want your mind broadened, at best they want you to travel around and see the world to do allah/god/etc's work in brainwashing new converts. People that truly think for themselves and see the world as it is quickly lose those silly ideas.