Imagine being able to download a full-length movie onto your laptop in eight seconds, watch your kids play in the park from the comfort of your condo or connect to the Internet from under an umbrella at Sugar Beach.<\/p>\n Waterfront Toronto announced yesterday that residents who move into one of the city\u2019s new waterfront communities will have something no one else in Canada has at home \u2014 unlimited access to one of the fastest Internet networks in the world, WiFi and a one-of-a-kind community portal.<\/p>\n What it does: Provides unlimited residential Internet with download and upload speeds of 100 megabits a second, 500 times faster than typical North American networks. Movies download in eight seconds compared with an hour and a half through a phone line or 20 minutes via a cable modem.<\/p>\n It also allows residents to access a community portal on a TV, tablet or computer. The portal is in development, but could be used to make reservations at a local restaurant, or to see the view from cameras trained on public spaces.<\/p>\n Costs: Home users will pay $60 a month for Internet, WiFi and the community portal, a price guaranteed for 10 years. Upgraded packages, at $100, will include phone, Internet and TV. Business packages will start at $79 a month.<\/p>\n Read the complete article here.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.hutchison-canada.com\/images\/thestarcom-logo.jpg\"){kind=logo}
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\nA speed-wired waterfront
\nExcerpted from The Toronto Star, published on June 7, 2011
\nby Patty Winsa, Urban Affairs Reporter<\/p>\n