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UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link
MJackson writes "The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in Humber, a large tidal estuary situated on the east coast of Northern England, has just become one of the UK's most remote-rural locations to have a next generation 100Mbps Fibre Optic FTTH broadband link installed. The deployment is being sponsored by FibreStream and amazingly the groundworks were completed by the lifeboat crew literally digging their own fibre. We'd do the same on our road, but the government would probably object."
$23,000 to run a cable across the street? I bet $19,000 of that is pure profit. And even after paying that they'll likely still charge you their exhorbitant rates and cap you at 250GB. :P
Maybe so--but if you don't like it, feel free to start your own ISP and charge less.
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