Anyone have some info as to wether or not that is possible here in Canada / the US? What would prevent the Hydro companies from becoming ISPs?
There is legislation that mandates that the utilities cannot sell their bandwidth in a retail capacity. They can only sell it whole-sale. I've got 100Mbps fiber.:)
The fact is that the more connectivity we have, the less connectivity we have - as people are encouraged to make more and more use of computers and telecommunications, they make less and less human contact.
Is that so? Funny, I look at my icq list and I see about 160 contacts.
I live in a VERY small town, and there isn't alot to do here, or a lot of people to talk to, consequently, I chat online.
I mainly use the Internet to talk to people. Less human contact? Yeah, right.
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Anyone have some info as to wether or not that is possible here in Canada / the US? What would prevent the Hydro companies from becoming ISPs?
There is legislation that mandates that the utilities cannot sell their bandwidth in a retail capacity. They can only sell it whole-sale. I've got 100Mbps fiber. :)
Wireless. Highspeed data. 900MHz, 2.4GHz, and up. There are many ways to implement the 'last mile' connection.
The fact is that the more connectivity we have, the less connectivity we have - as people are encouraged to make more and more use of computers and telecommunications, they make less and less human contact.
Is that so? Funny, I look at my icq list and I see about 160 contacts.
I live in a VERY small town, and there isn't alot to do here, or a lot of people to talk to, consequently, I chat online.
I mainly use the Internet to talk to people. Less human contact? Yeah, right.
Trolls should go away now. Bye.
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http://www.delphion.com/fcgi-bin/any2html?FILENAM
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