Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com>

> As such, I'm sure that such a move would be vocally opposed by
> the current owners of the LMI who enjoy leveraging it to extort
> monopolistic pricing from substandard services.

As I noted, yes, that's Verizontal, and they have apparently succeeded
in lobbying to have it made *illegal* in several states.  I don't have
citations to hand, but there are a couple sites that track muni fiber;
I can find some.

Cheers,
-- jra