This is the first I have heard about this. I wonder what it will do to prices and I wonder how they will compete with Mediacom. I have a 20Mbps connection at the school from Cass Communications at a reasonable rate, but am not nearly so happy with my connection at home in Jacksonville.
I am also anxious for 3G coverage in the Jacksonville area, but I assume this project is absolutely separate from AT&T work I've hear little peeps about. Frontier spending millions on Internet "...A substantial amount of a multi-million dollar undertaking by Frontier Communications will be spent on bringing high-speed Internet to the area. Frontier Communications is in the process of putting in a fiber from Bloomington to New Berlin that will expand the network and increase the bandwidth, said Steve Saylor, general manager of Frontier Communications. Starting July 1, the company began its 180-day plan in which it intends to bring high-speed Internet to the Jacksonville area, Chatham, Franklin, Girard, Pawnee and Virden.... http://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/frontier-28713-internet-speed.html <http://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/frontier-28713-internet-speed.html> --Michael T. Bendorf-- Technology Administrator A-C Central C.U.S.D. #262 217.476.3312 ext. 2019 DID #: 217.476.6019 Cellular: 217.306.6824 "I'm trying to teach myself to ask the same questions that you do during your lectures so that I do not need you any more." A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. "The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas." - Alan Kay
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