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Broadband is an inalienable right - This is how you do it Dermot

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  • 12-02-2003 9:08pm
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    yellum
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    Broadband is an inalienable right

    The State of Kentucky will provide broadband Internet access in low-income housing projects.


    Taking an aggressive stance on the issue of the digital divide, the Kentucky Housing Corporation, or KHC, has listed broadband Internet access among the inalienable rights of its low-income housing residents.

    As part of an effort to enact universal design standards for public housing, the KHC passed a mandate (PDF) stating that all new housing units funded more than 50 percent by the KHC must be equipped with access to high-speed Internet service.


    From Wired


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    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,073 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    Aaarrgh! Better chicken AND internet connection! Wish we had a colonel...


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    yellum
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    Its probably more a Dept of the Environment matter but I can't see why this provision can't be done with all the Corpo houses around. Every new estate should have fibre coming into the house. Done en mass the costs will come way down.

    Maybe the goverment could do what they are doing with the fibre ring projects where they bought all the equipment together so they got a large discount on the cost and then they resold this to all the various ring projects at cost.

    If they can do it with Global Crossing broadband ...


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