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Comments on news posted 2007-11-14 10:56:14: About this time last year, Clarksville, Tennessee, voters overwhelmingly approved (72%) the Clarksville Department of Electricity's (CDE) bid to provide triple play FTTH services over a new fiber-optic network. ..
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 | | I'd Rather Fight Than Switch? The cable and telcos are so shortsighted on this. I could understand they wouldn't want the competition if a government entity got into the business of selling TV programming or telephone services. I'm not sure I'd want my local government doing that either.
But it makes a huge amount of sense to throw the costs of maintaining the physical plant on a municipality and concentrate on marketing the various TV & voice apps. Kind of like the Utopia model. Then they've been fighting that as well. | |
| | openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Re: I'd Rather Fight Than Switch? Instead of competing with corporations (questionable tangent that has been painfully discussed around here), the municipality should have leased the infrastructure to various providers to alleviate some of the deployment cost...à la Utopia. I'm not so sure that I'd want my town providing telco, TV, internet access either. | |
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join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | Re: I'd Rather Fight Than Switch? If the incumbents had supported the project in the first place Clarksville probably would have leased the infrastructure to them. By fighting the project because they want to own the infrastructure they screwed themselves. | |
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join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Re: I'd Rather Fight Than Switch? Sure they would have  Considering that providing these services wasn't an initial requirement when planning out the network, I find it odd to suggest that the municipality would have planned to lease the infrastructure to other providers. | |
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 KrKHeavy Artillery For The Little GuyPremium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| Open network An ideal scenario would be have the city Fiber network being used for saving the municipality money, automatic meter reads, tech access in the field, WiFi spots, Internet to schools/libraries etc etc
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Open network for 3rd parties to sell video services, ISP, shopping etc over.
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"Regulatory capitalism is when companies invest in lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians, instead of plant, people, and customer service." - former FCC Chairman William Kennard (A real FCC Chairman, unlike the current Corporate Spokesperson in the job!) | |
|  AlakarFacts do not cease to exist when ignored
join:2001-03-23
Milwaukee, WI | Interesting It looks like, from their map, Fort Campbell is being wired as well. Wonder how that works on a Federal installation? | |
| |  swinn
join:2001-02-16
Clarksville, TN | Re: Interesting It doesn't include the base. You can see on the upper left side of the map where Ft. Campbell is (white part). | |
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redblkjckPremium
join:2001-11-07
Millersville, MD |  Good
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