My friend Tyler Hamilton reports in today's Toronto Star that Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. is about to become the first Canadian municipality to roll out residential high-speed Internet service which uses power lines to carry data traffic. The Soo's local public utilities commission (PUC) will use Wi-Fi transmitters on hydro poles as its last-mile solution but power lines will be used as the transmission layer back to the PUC's central office where fibre will continue to be the main backbone to the wider Internet.