[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[steve jenkin]

Karl Auer wrote on 23/6/07 3:10 PM:
> You forgot the third option: Run fibre to that little hamlet. At
> taxpayer expense. And to all the other little hamlets. The cost will be
> way less in real terms than the cost of power, telephone or the road to
> those little hamlets was.
>   
Canada is as large and has an environment as hostile as Australia.

This is some of what's happening there:
<http://www.kamloops.ca/kcn/index.shtml> Town of Kamloops
<http://www.bc3.ca/> British Columbia Community Connectivity Co-Op
<http://www.digitalcities.co.nz/resources/study-canada.html> NZ links to
Canada
<http://www.folkstone.ca/main/community/broadband/RegionalExamples.html>
Examples of Planned Community networks

Research network in Novia Scotia: <http://acorn-ns.ca/projects.html>

Sometime I heard that they had fibre running around regional communities
- but I've not been able to find any real references...  Sweden
definitely is well ahead of everyone :-) Difficult country, but small.

> Alternatively, implement community service obligations with teeth. If
> the telcos want those great big sweet apples in the cities, then they
> have to supply every little hamlet - yup, regardless of how far out -
> with the same service. Yup, the *same service*. And if that makes the
> telcos no longer viable - well that's just fine too. The Government - we
> the people - get to snap up all that infrastructure for a song, and go
> back to doing it *right*.
>
> Regards, K.
>
>   


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