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Here are two articles on Broadband Initiative issues:
Broadband Stimulus Plan: How About Some Data First?
CC, TV, Internet set for big changes in 2009
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Interesting article on Slashdot regarding non-cable/DSL internet. Link [1] lists Smarter Broadband, but I didn't check for others in this area.
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| WISPS Mean Cable and DSL Aren't the Only Choices |
| from the ephemeral-connection dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday February 06, @07:33 (Wireless Network|
| http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/06/0158225 |
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[0]Brett Glass writes "Feel like you're stuck with a no-win choice between expensive cable modem service and slow DSL for Internet?
Currently using satellite, with long latencies that make it impossible to do VoIP or interactive gaming? One of America's best kept secrets, so it seems, is the [1]wide coverage of WISPs b terrestrial (not satellite or
cellular) wireless broadband Internet providers. The linked article gives an overview of WISPs and provides a handy map showing their nationwide coverage (more than 750,000 square miles of the continental US b and only about one third of the WISPs in the US are on the map so far). Most WISPs are small, independent, consumer-friendly, and tech savvy, making them a better choice than big, corporate ISPs who [2]can't even tell a penny from a dollar."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/02/06/0158225
Links:
0. http://www.brettglass.com/mailbrett.html
1. http://bennett.com/blog/2009/02/thought-you-had-no-alternatives-for-broadband/
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJ3Oz5JVKs&eurl=http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/02/05/verizon-customer-service-not-so-good-at-math/
Posted by: Charlie Kotan | February 10, 2009 at 07:27 PM