First it was Time Warner announcing Wideband speeds and now Verizon has launched 4G service in Keene! The bandwidth in town just keeps getting better – hooray for competition!
A test earlier today with the free SpeedTest app resulted in typical 4G speeds, 15mbps down and about 10mbps up from Main St. in Keene.
UPDATE: User claims US Cellular has had 4G for months in Keene
On this first day of the New Year, I was motivated to do something I don’t normally, and that is contacting federal ‘representatives’. A website linked on my Facebook feed made it as easy as customizing a form letter to address three congressman and the president. The letter called for the immediate closing of the US Department of Defense’s School of the Americas, also known as WHINSEC, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. WHINSEC is a training facility in Fort Benning, Georgia where primarily Latin American militants loyal to US foreign policy demands are instructed in tactics of controlling and killing. You don’t often (or ever) hear the four politicians who received my message discussing the collateral damage and crimes attributed to graduates of the school, which made it the most fitting way to frame a new year, while talking heads babble on about fiscal cliffs. For more on legislative and other actions to take against the School of the Americas, check out soawatch.org.