{"id":7448,"date":"2014-01-22T13:45:47","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=7448"},"modified":"2014-01-22T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T18:48:18","slug":"town-builds-its-own-gigabit-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/town-builds-its-own-gigabit-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Town builds its own gigabit network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nAnd for about $57 a month.\r\n<p>\r\nEmily Chung wrote for CBC News 18 July 2013,\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/small-alberta-town-gets-massive-1-000-mbps-broadband-boost-1.1382428\">\r\nSmall Alberta town gets massive 1,000 Mbps broadband boost:\r\nRural community of Olds builds its own fibre network and starts its own ISP<\/a>\r\n<blockquote style=\"font-size:100%\">\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/small-alberta-town-gets-massive-1-000-mbps-broadband-boost-1.1382428\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;width:250px\" src=\"http:\/\/i.cbc.ca\/1.1619868.1379105518!\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/original_300\/sm-250-olds-college-dsc-0254.jpg\"><\/a>\r\nUltrafast internet speeds that most Canadian city dwellers can only\r\ndream of will soon be available to all 8,500 residents in a rural\r\nAlberta community for as little as $57 a month, thanks to a project\r\nby the town&#8217;s non-profit economic development foundation.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\n&#8220;We&#8217;ll be the first &#8216;gig town&#8217; in Canada,&#8221; said Nathan Kusiek,\r\ndirector of marketing for O-Net, the community-owned internet\r\nservice provider that runs the fibre optic network being built by\r\nthe non-profit Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development\r\nin Olds, Alta., about 90 kilometres north of Calgary.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\r\nThere&#8217;s more in\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/technology\/small-alberta-town-gets-massive-1-000-mbps-broadband-boost-1.1382428\">\r\nthe article<\/a>.\r\n<p>\r\n -jsq\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And for about $57 a month. Emily Chung wrote for CBC News 18 July 2013, Small Alberta town gets massive 1,000 Mbps broadband boost: Rural community of Olds builds its own fibre network and starts its own ISP Ultrafast internet speeds that most Canadian city dwellers can only dream of will soon be available to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,132],"tags":[306,862,8704,8701,8741,8702,12,7,7398,7399,6],"class_list":["post-7448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-internet-access-speed","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-economy","tag-georgia","tag-internet-access-speed","tag-lake","tag-lowndes-area-knowledge-exchange","tag-lowndes-county","tag-o-net","tag-olds","tag-valdosta"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-1W8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7451,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions\/7451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}