In this case, they may chose to go with such providers as AOL, etc. Omnifest, developed by the university served its purpose well, and that was to get the city interested in the technology. But, such servers fall way short because it can only provide written communication. In the future, it may decide to improve. The easiest connection would be through the telephone lines, which is both the least expensive and the slowest and most cumbersome.
Some communities now have the same connections through their cable providers.
This is idea since almost all communities within the USA have such access. ISDN lines are the most promising because they can carry most of the written, voice, and graphic data needed for the training, problem solving, and community planning. They can vary in cost depending upon the speed at which they transpose that data. At this time, most computers need to be equipped with such a modem. This is but a brief scenario of how the emergent technology may be used for community planning.