Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks

["Michael Painter" <tvhawaii () shaka com>]

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,
> > -- jra
>
> Laws can be changed if we can get enough momentum behind
> doing the right thing.
>
> Owen

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