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Internet Archive Gives Low Income SF Residents Free Internet

Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 10:52:32 AM

IA_logo.jpgSan Francisco non-profit tech do-gooders, the Internet Archive, are now providing free Internet services to public housing projects. According to a press release issued by the Archive on Thursday, Valencia Gardens Housing, with 240 units, will be the first building connected at 100 megabits per second. In case megabits means nothing to you, that’s fast. Really fast. Phone companies offer service that connects at around six megabits per second.

The Internet Archive is able to achieve this high speed by connecting the San Francisco municipal fiber optic network, which runs through the public housing developments, to an Archive switching center, which connects to the Internet.
Over the next eight to ten months, the Archive hopes to wire over 2,500 units.-Andy Wright

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