The City of Albuquerque is planning on constructing a wireless Internet system for the city. That is nice but it should only be considered as one small part of a larger effort at making this a connected city. Wireless systems are somewhat limited and basic and will probably not meet future requirements for telecommuting, security services, home medical services and video.Most large planned community builders right now are doing technology master plans. Most of them will end up with high speed (speed of light) fiber optic systems that connect right to the home. Many subdivisions that are now being built however have no such plans and that will hurt this community in the future. Although I am getting pretty good service from Comcast right now I don't believe they will upgrade their systems for us in a timely manner. They are too busy raising our rates so they can buy up other systems around the country.
This city and all others in New Mexico should be adopting Technology Master Plans that set basic service levels for Internet services being provided to homes. There should be no homes built with out fiber optics at the curb. I don't understand why the city and county have not done this. There are plenty of consultants out there that could set them on their way.
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I'd be much more interested in the City forcing Comcast to lower their outrageous prices, than having free Internet services. For the crap that is passing for "entertainment" on Comcast's "buy the package or go without" the cost is horrible. People on fixed incomes are the ones being hurt.
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