A Village Has What
All of Italy Wants: The Internet
VERRUA SAVOIA, Italy — This rural hilltop village, where a 17th-century fortress is a reminder of how residents warded off invaders for hundreds of years, might seem the last place in Italy to find a wireless Internet connection.
After all, roughly a
third of Italians have never used the Internet, giving the country
one of the lowest rates of usage in Europe. Residents can recall
providers laughing over the phone at their request for an Internet
hookup, or the perplexed look of technicians upon arriving in
Verrua Savoia, where just 1,500 residents live in dozens of small
settlements spread over nearly 20 miles of valleys and steep
hillsides in northern Italy.[...]
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