Pack93z
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12 years ago

Try the divide once you get north of 29 in Wisconsin.. many are being held hostage for 768 DSL or worse yet, dial up.

Try running a business on less than a meg up.. and paying a small fortune because there is little in terms of options.


From Milwaukee to Chattanooga, a sea of digital divide

To see how far Wisconsin has to go in the technology race, consider Chattanooga, Tenn., a city once referred to as the dirtiest in America because of its factories.

Today, Chattanooga claims to have the fastest broadband service in the nation: a superfast, city-run network available to every resident and business in a 600-square-mile region.

The city of 168,000 residents offers broadband speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second - 200 times faster than the average national download speed today. A full gigabit connection costs $350 per month. Service at 30 megabits per second - enough to stream six high-definition movies from Netflix at once, for instance - is available for about $58 per month. Other speeds are available at various prices on the municipal network.

Only Hong Kong and a few other cities in the world offer full gigabit service on a large scale - Google is building a much smaller network in Kansas City - and the superfast broadband is being touted as an economic development tool, much like electricity spurred the second industrial revolution in the 19th century.

"It's like being the first city to have fire," said Chattanooga Mayor Ron Littlefield. "We don't know all of the things we can do with it yet, but we have something that no one else has, at least to this degree."

Whether local governments should be involved in providing broadband and television service remains contentious. But there's a lot at stake as the economy becomes more dependent on telecommunications, according to the Wisconsin Technology Council.

"Today's game-changing technology is improved broadband connections," the Madison-based organization said in a recent report, which says Wisconsin ranks 43rd out of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. territories in the percentage of households with access to broadband at download speeds of greater than 3 megabits per second.

A state telecom industry trade group, the Wisconsin Telecommunications Association, disputes those figures and says only 12 states rank better than Wisconsin in the percentage of broadband connections at 3-megabits-per-second download speed and a minimum upload speed of 200 kilobits per second.

Still, we can do better, according to the technology council.

"While Wisconsin is getting more aggressive about deploying broadband networks and even using federal stimulus dollars to do so, the law and the regulatory culture haven't kept up. In fact, efforts to nudge Wisconsin's regulatory structure closer to the times sometimes come across as painfully slow," the report says.

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rabidgopher04
12 years ago
I don't there is enough competition in the internet service provider world. I'm stuck paying crazy prices for nominal speed increases. Can't someone provide a good 20 Mbps service for $20-25 per month? I wish I could just lay my own cable and provide a better service for everyone (and steal customers and profits from Comcast and Centurylink).
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dfosterf
12 years ago
IEEE802.11ac for northern Wisconsin until fiber hits the homes. It will need a fiber back-bone, but the rest can be accomplished via wire-less. That would be my vote.
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