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Coeur d’Alene Building Reservation-wide Wi-Fi

August 23, 2005 /

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Last month, in a special ceremony attended by HUD (Housing and Urban Development) officials, state senators and other local elected officials, members of the Coeur d’Alene tribe in Idaho celebrated the grand opening of the tribe’s new community technology center (CTC). The CTC, which makes broadband access and 40 computers available to members of the tribe for free, is the first phase of a multifaceted plan to bring broadband wireless to every corner of the reservation. Before doors opened at the CTC in mid-July, there was no broadband available anywhere on the reservation.

Valerie Fast Horse, IT Director for the tribe, calls the arrival of broadband on the reservation “revolutionary.”

By Naomi Graychase

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