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Just spotted this tasty morsel in the Times.
Now that Stimulus dollars are flowing into the coffers of various tech companies, a new look is being taken at delivering internet to our country-living friends through already existing power lines.
Did you know we could do that?
We can indeed! Peep this:
“Technology to send broadband over power lines has been around for several years, but it typically hasn’t been able to offer enough capacity at a low enough price to beat service from cable and phone companies.
But with government subsidies, the approach is starting to be deployed in areas that don’t have access to other forms of broadband.
There appears to be pent-up demand in these areas. One Michigan cooperative signed up 5,000 customers in the first two weeks, said Raymond Blair, the director of advanced networks for I.B.M.
These deployments have been subsidized by low-interest loans from the Rural Development Program of the Department of Agriculture, which is going to get a big chunk of new money for loans and grants from the stimulus bill that was just signed.”
-Saul Hansel @ the NY Times
Heck yes.
I have always wondered what a map of “Red” and “Blue” states would look like with a map of internet access laid on top of it. Would there be a correlation between the amount (and quality) of information one can recieve in ones home and a persons political leanings?
As in, if you know more, are you afraid of less? Or simply afraid of different things than the usual? What is “the usual”?
This is such a massive win. We cannot overstate it.
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Go American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009! We loves you.
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