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Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:36:16 -0500 (EST)

---- Original Message -----
From: "Dylan N" <dylan () dylannguyen net>

Out of curiosity, do you have plans for legal battles or anything?
There have been some other places attempting or running muni broadband that
have resulted in crap like the hilariously named "AN ACT TO PROTECT
JOBS AND INVESTMENT BY REGULATING LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMPETITION WITH PRIVATE
BUSINESS" bill.

Believe me, budgeting for both legal, and PR to make Verizo<um><ahem>any 
large proprietary carrier look greedy and malign is in my plans, yes. :-)

TTBOMK, Florida is not a state where Verizon succeeded in making muni 
ownership of the phy layer illegal.  And since they're on record that

a) they were cherrypicking and
b) they're done now

it shouldn't be too hard to suggest their intentions.

Cheers,
-- jra
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