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Thursday, December 02, 2004
Further to the Jakob Nielsen post on decentralization... and to a recent Business 2.0 story about startups who eschewed Silicon Valley to work in lower-cost remote areas...
A Canadian satellite broadband company, incorporating technology from Motorola, is offering affordable satellite Internet service that works pretty much anywhere and offers about the same speed as DSL.
The only catch seems to be that a "base station" needs to be installed "by your community" and you need to be within 16km of one of these units. For dispersed dwellers in remote cottage areas, that seems to make the service possible only if residents pool funds to install a number of the units. Driving through the Muskokas (about 90 minutes north of Toronto) this summer, I noticed that deep-pocketed region was already getting on board with new Internet access schemes. It shouldn't be too long before this stuff spreads to less prestigious regions. Within a couple of summers I may not even be able to escape work in the rocky hills and lakes of the Haliburton Highlands. Sooner, if somebody convinces the Wilberforce Chamber of Commerce to give Xplornet a call.
Posted by
Andrew Goodman
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D'oh!
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