{"id":2253,"date":"2011-03-29T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/gigabit-internet-in-chattanooga.html"},"modified":"2011-03-29T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:00:00","slug":"gigabit-internet-in-chattanooga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/gigabit-internet-in-chattanooga.html","title":{"rendered":"Gigabit Internet in Chattanooga"},"content":{"rendered":"If we’re going to copy Chattanooga about something, how about this:\n133 US cities now have their own broadband networks<\/a> by Nate Anderson in Ars Technica:\n
\nSuch publicly owned networks can offer services that incumbents don’t,\nsuch as the 1Gbps fiber network in Chattanooga, Tennessee, run by the\ngovernment-owned electric power board. And they sometimes have more\nincentive to reach every resident, even in surrounding rural areas,\nin ways that might not make sense for a profit-focused company.\n<\/blockquote>\nAccording to this map of\n\nCommunity Broadband Networks<\/a>\nby the Institute for Local Self-Reliance,\nquite a few small cities in south Georgia have municipal cable networks:\n

\n\n<\/a>\n

\nAll three of Moultrie, Thomasville, and Cairo use CNS,\nwhose brochure for Moultrie says you can get<\/a>:\n\n
Downstream<\/th>Upstream<\/th>Monthly Cost<\/th><\/tr>\n
5 Mbps<\/td>1 Mbps<\/td>$29.95<\/td><\/tr>\n
12 Mbps<\/td>2 Mbps<\/td>$35.95<\/td><\/tr>\n
22 Mbps<\/td>3 Mbps<\/td>$49.95<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\nNow that’s not 1 Gbps, but it’s a darn sight faster than the\nallegedly 3Mbps AT&T DSL!\n

\nIf Moultrie, Thomasville, and Cairo, and yes, Doerun can do this,\nwhy can’t Valdosta and Hahira?\n

\nAnd then how about add on a wireless network to reach the rest of us\nrural folk?\n

\nMaybe then we wouldn’t be the \nInternet backwoods.<\/a>\n

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