But this is cool: Cinergy and Current Communications to Offer Broadband Services Over Power Lines.
Slashdot says $29.95/month for 1 Mb/s both upstream and down.
I hope for two things:
1. It's highly reliable (more so than my often flakey cable modem).
2. That it comes to Lansing soon :)
Maybe I'll try and bug the Lansing Board of Water & Light about it.
Good luck. They will probably offer it in the year 20 zillion...
It would be very freaking cool though!
I won't be around after the year 20 zillion.
But if they did offer it, they would either have to partner with some ISP (who would have to hire a bunch of people) or hire a bunch of people.