Remote Massachusetts Towns Welcome Broadband's Arrival

New submitter arnoldjm writes: This story from the Boston Globe tells of the effort to bring publicly funded fiber-optic data transmission capabilities to Western Massachusetts. The Globe Reports: "The network, financed with state and federal stimulus money, will extend broadband to 45 isolated towns where 40 percent of homes have no Internet access... Leverett [one of the towns involved] has contracted a private company to provide Internet service, which will cost subscribers $65 a month. That's about same as Comcast and Verizon FIOS customers pay in Greater Boston, but the speeds in Leverett are about 10 times faster."

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definitions for our new netizens

[nimbius]

For those of you new to the idea of the internet and its related jargon, here are a few definitions for words we use quite a bit:
Comcastic: When someone tells you its comcastic, it generally means an untreatable state of general malease and agony. Example: "the cancer has become comcastic"
bundling: this is a business strategy used by internet service providers to ensure that when your internet quits working, so does your phone and your television. the only thing that wont stop working however are the recurring payments you make for the service.

Also, when calling for technical support and service it is a common misconception to assume the phrase" your call is very important to us" is actually true. In fact, this is entirely false. Many ISP's have entire departments of hundreds, even thousands of dedicated representitives working hard to ensure your misery.

Re:Remote? In Massachusetts?

[hey!]

Oh it's hell here. Practically as bad as Sweden without the blondes. And so socialist nobody here makes any money. They tax us so bad we're all as poor as church mice, every last lost soul.