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(MENAFN) An official in the Amsterdam city council revealed that construction of a glass fiber network has started in Amsterdam recently in a project that will connect 40,000 households in Zeeburg, Osdorp and Amsterdam, Xinhuanet reported.
The official added that the super-fast internet connection will be established in partnership with five housing corporations and private investors.
It's worth mentioning that subscribers with a connection can concurrently telephone, go online and watch high-quality television, the official said.
The project is expected to be finished by the year 2008, but it is not yet clear when other city districts will have access to the new network, according to the official.
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In an era of celebrity TV chefs and obsession with the latest shade-grown fair-trade coffee, the Williams-Sonoma culinary retail chain might seem like just another pushy brand cleverly catering to our aspirational appetites. But, like other ubiquitous retailers such as the Gap and Starbucks, you can trace all those shiny copper pots and haute chef knives back to a lifestyle visionary with a single humble shop. In this case, 91-year-old Charles (Chuck) E. Williams is still around to tell the tale of opening a French cookware shop in Sonoma, Calif., in 1956 (his first location was a former hardware store). He had a simple idea: bring restaurant-level cookware, appliances and ingredients to the home chef for the first time in the United States. .
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