In Minnesota, St. Paul and Minneapolis may stand as poster children for two trends in broadband: On your left, Comcast offers 50 Mbps/5 Mbps in the home; on your right, a working urban Wi-Fi network.
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In Minnesota, St. Paul and Minneapolis may stand as poster children for two trends in broadband: On your left, Comcast offers 50 Mbps/5 Mbps in the home; on your right, a working urban Wi-Fi network.
The salient point: St. Paul, where Comcast is rolling out what is arguably the fastest speed in the country, is actively considering a FTTH network.
Minneapolis is getting ubiquitous wifi but St. Paul is getting (whether by its own hand or as a consequence of Comast deciding to block such action) an extremely fast wired connection. The two networks will be near each other but will not cover the same area. That is suggestive but not exemplary.
The interesting network will be Lafayette's where there will be a single network offering a very high speed connections to the internet (starting at 10 megs), an internal 100 meg intranet (between subscribers), and a wifi network hung off ubiquitous fiber. I hope that the promised wifi network will make full use of the potential of fiber on every block. (It need not be limited to 1 to 3 megs of speed.)
Once all that is in play that will be the place in the US to watch for the interplay of ubiquitous wireless and truly fast broadband.