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Free business idea: Jet-powered Internet cafe

Posted on 30. Jun, 2006 by Cassandra in Uncategorized

An Internet cafe is usually like a public train station.
Filled with tourists checking up on their email, geeks needing to be in the same room as other geeks and pervert trying to get access to adult content portals even though the sign says; ‘No porn, big boy’.
It’s a bit of a ho hum industry really.

But now the BBC reports that a new kind of Internet cafe has opened in Cornwall, England; that offers connection speeds 50 times faster than the typical British ADSL speed.

That means users can download data at speeds of up to 100 megabits per second (Mbps)….and its for free.

Just to give you some idea of how fast this puppy actually runs -

Adrian Hosford of BT said: "It would be possible to use
the cafe’s computers to download in less than 15 minutes a file the
equivalent size of the DVD version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
with its 19,000 illustrations, 629 audio and video clips and 100,000
articles.

"A standard broadband connection would typically take in excess of five hours."

In a country like ours, where the fastest connection struggles to download even a 100k picture of Hello Kitty – this has to a mouth watering opportunity.
Chat to Telkom, give them a cut in the business and organise a direct satellite link to nirvana. [thanks Nick Soper]

Superfast Internet cafe launches – BBC