Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month

Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 19, 2013 @07:07AM from the grassroots-gigabit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On Thursday, the board of O-Net gave approval for residents to get access to [full gigabit bandwidth] for the same price that they currently pay for a guaranteed download speed of 100 megabits per second — $57 to $90 a month, depending on whether they have bundled their internet with TV and phone service. ... the town realized that it couldn't attract technology-based businesses and that bandwidth was a challenge even to ordinary businesses. It came up with a plan — it would install a fibre network throughout the town that would connect to the larger inter-community network being built by the government at that time — the Alberta Supernet."

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Re:That's socialism by ShanghaiBill · 2013-07-19 08:27 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Socialism is government ownership of the means of production.
No, you're thinking of communism.
No I am not. Socialism is an economic system. Totalitarianism is a political system. Combine the two, and you get totalitarian socialism, which is communism. Just like fascism is totalitarian capitalism, as clearly stated by the founder of Fascism, Benito Mussolini: "Fascism ... is the merger of state and corporate power."