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Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:16:58 -0700
On Mar 27, 2011, at 12:35 AM, Michael Painter wrote:
Owen DeLong wrote:On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:----- 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, -- jraLaws can be changed if we can get enough momentum behind doing the right thing. Owenhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Yes, that's the reality we're faced with... The question is how do we overcome it and resolve the situation in the public interest. We can either work to resolve the problem, or, accept it as fait acompli and wear the yoke of corporate slavery for the rest of our lives. I, personally, prefer to look for alternatives. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks, (continued)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Martin Millnert (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Owen DeLong (Mar 26)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Adrian Chadd (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Owen DeLong (Mar 26)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Jay Ashworth (Mar 26)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Owen DeLong (Mar 27)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Michael Painter (Mar 27)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Fred Richards (Mar 27)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Fred Richards (Mar 27)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Jeffrey S. Young (Mar 27)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Owen DeLong (Mar 27)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Michael Painter (Mar 27)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Jay Ashworth (Mar 27)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Joly MacFie (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Richard Bennett (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Joly MacFie (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Richard Bennett (Mar 26)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Joly MacFie (Mar 26)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Joly MacFie (Mar 26)