Swedish granny connects at lighting speed

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01/08/2007

A 75-year-old woman in Sweden who previously didn’t even own a computer has been supplied with a 40 gigabyte per second broadband connection, a speed even the geeks in Silicon Valley can only dream about. But she isn’t just any granny, but the mother of Peter Löthberg, the ultimate optical internet guru. “The line demonstrates how to build a low price, high capacity connection over long distances,” Löthberg explains.