On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 12:06:02PM +0100, kevin lyda mentioned:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 11:51:07AM +0100, Justin Mason wrote:
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/29/11578.html> >
> > Palm preps summer launch for Euro Palm.net
>> we aren't in europe. it's like smart cars (you can get them, you just
> can't get the body panels), when it comes to neat stuff it's like
> we're part of atlantis or something. ten years after rolling it out
> in the uk ntl will roll out cable modems here - while the rest of the
> world uses some form of wide area gigabit networking.
Makes you wonder if a housing co-op for geeks could work. You know the
way houses are expensive these days, and that home bandwidth is too ?
If twenty people said "I'll buy a house", and then they bought the land,
and got a builder to build the houses, you could get a decent house, ex
land, for £70k each. Add a fibre drop to each house, going into one
central house with a fibre switch, and an E1....wouldn't add too much to
the price of the houses. May as well stick two CatV sockets to each room
in the house...hey...could you do voice over IP too, to the ISP ?
Kate
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