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Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade
A Google Fiberhood-style rollout in the U.S., says a Goldman-Sachs estimate, would cost in the neighborhood of $140 billion. Even for Israel, a country approximately the size of New Jersey, there's a high pricetag ("billions of shekels") for installing fiber optics dense enough to reach most of the population, but just a massive fiber-optic rollout is planned, with the project led by Swedish firm Viaeuropa. If the scheme succeeds, it will cover two thirds of the country over the next 10 years or so.
Nice! Wonder if the illegal settlements get it too? Kinda useless considering their isp only gives access to 400 orthodox enough sites.
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Illegal settlements? Citation needed.
Settlements on land claimed by Israel after Israel was attacked in an attempt to destroy Israel and take over Israeli land? RTFA.
Israel needs tanks and nukes to fight palestinians with stones, not phiber optical infra-structures :)
Possession is nine tenths of the law. I don't care about the Palestinians if they're too weak or stupid to figure out how to take the land back either with themselves, or with the aid of the mighty Muslim ummah.
And I would be interested to find out if they run it to the settlements, or just the west J and metro areas.
It's an awesome excuse to steal more land and demolish more Palestinian villages in the West Bank - "We need it for a fibre optic connection to the settlements." (Never mind that it's likely to be run along existing telephone or power lines.)
Work like no one is watching. Dance like you've never been hurt. Make love like you don't need the money.