COMTek has completed citywide installation of high speed internet connections over powerlines in Manassas.


COMTek has completed citywide installation of high speed internet connections over powerlines in Manassas, a city in Washington. The company now has the infrastructure in place to offer the facility to the whole city.

Communication Technologies Inc, COMTech, has announced through The Washington Post, it had completed citywide installation of the technology and will step up marketing it to Manassas’s 12,500 households.

The technology involves using broadband-over-power-line, which allows access to the Internet through any electrical socket in the home or office. This is an alternative to service from cable and phone companies.

According to the The Washington Post, The Washington area is a major hub for technology that transmits high-speed Internet connections over power lines. The city of Manassas is one of the first communities in which the service is commercially available.

Joseph E. Fergus, founder and chief executive of COMTek, Communications Technology Inc., said, “This is an achievement of a major national milestone for COMTek, which so far has 700 paying residential customers in Manassas. The technology will be deployed within two years to scores of communities across the U.S”.

COMTek charges $38.95 a month for the service and shares revenue with the city. The city administration has provided access to municipal power and fiber-optic networks. COMTech has been testing the service there since 2001.

 

 

 

 

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