Quote Originally Posted by koh303 View Post
I have no doubt that this new system is great now, when the user count is LOW, time will tell if it survives the masses. In any cases it is not available to single family houses (perhaps "yet").

For some reason, despite being a world power, the US has some of the worst internet service, and at one of the worlds highest rates, mostly due to the monopolized market, changing that rather then the tech might make the internet faster and more accessible.
I quickly scanned thru the article Randy Moe linked to so I'm not 100% up on how it works
but if they are in fact using lasers as the transmission medium then it won't take long before
the FCC will kibosh it and or rates will go up, DSL in my area was like that dirt cheap when it was available
every body was offering deals but it slowly crept up.

If I'm correct the US is the only country where the internet service is not Gov subsidized.