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Technology Stocks : LAST MILE TECHNOLOGIES - Let's Discuss Them Here
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To: MikeM54321 who wrote (9658)12/11/2000 6:55:06 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (2) of 12823
 
Mike, the Palo Alto trial does more than put new technology on trial. It is a (somewhat socially oriented) experiment that tests the willingness of homeowners to help support new technologies that they could not otherwise receive from existing providers, by paying for a part of its delivery, directly.

This is symbolic of certain grass-root "get involved with your community" type thinking that is spreading in certain areas, where individual homeowners have a greater say, albeit at a higher direct cost to them at the same time, about what they will use to access the 'Net in the future.

Would I lay out the kind of money that they are asking for? If the technology works as advertised, I would. Then again, I have telecommuting and other volume-intense needs that might warrant it, where it would not be suitable for someone else.

Here's the page that preceded the PDF you posted:

city.palo-alto.ca.us

It states:

"Welcome to the City of Palo Alto Utilities (CPAU) web site on the Fiber to the Home Trial. This experimental project assesses the feasibility and economic viability of connecting homes to Palo Alto's dark fiber loop and providing them with high speed Internet access to one neighborhood within Palo Alto through a three-way partnership between CPAU, an Internet Service Provider (ISP), and local homeowners.
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