The schools also have video-conferencing and Internet access, but those services are provided through the state's educational network. Of the 700 to 800 homes in Lusk, only about 50 have actually been connected to the new network, for testing purposes. The capabilities are there. It just takes more money now, and we don't have more money. It's just, nobody has the dream.
Nobody has the desire.
They don't have the dream. The original hope, according to several town officials, was that the robust bandwidth of the network would attract companies willing to make the investment necessary to put it to use. They envisioned catalog companies, reservation systems, corporate branch offices and the like tapping into the town's fiber to move data across the country at top speeds. Residential services like cable TV would be further behind, they said, because of the expense of connecting all those homes to the network. The town's efforts earned some glowing press from the national media, generating a stream of inquiries from companies wanting to hear about the bandwidth and how it might work for them.