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Originally posted by The Other Steve@Mar 16 2005, 12:25 AM
And as for plucking the Internet out of the air - that's not as whimsical as it might sound. A small electricity provider here in Australia and one over in the eastern states in the USA have both been experimenting with providing internet access via power lines at speeds that are truly staggering.
I don't know what is happening in the US but here in Australia they are just about ready to go commercial with it.
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That's interesting - i remember some UK companies trying that out in around 1998 or so. I think they hooked up a small community with it. Didn't hear anything about it since, so it doesn't look like they managed to properly commercialise it. This was before cable/adsl really, so maybe the costs are higher than those associated with cable/adsl.
Have they released a likely monthly subscription cost?