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Jacksonville, FL | reply to Stumbles
Re: How about some common sense... "Now to the point. How about checking with the customers of other municipalities that have their own fiber before making such a blanket statement."
Ashland, Oregon is a great example of muni based fiber that the citizens really like. I know of 3 businesses who relocated there just to get access to the cheaper bandwidth.
"The Federal Government, State Governments and Local Governments DO run our highway system. Could it be better?"
In 1983, there was a proposal to privately finance a multi-lane toll based highway from Chicago to Kansas City that would only allow trucks. It reached the feasibility status, but finally became bogged down when DOT couldn't make a ruling as to how it would be "regulated". (ie: numbering, law enforcement, speed limits, contract set-asides, etc.) The firm doing the feasibility saw themselves as no different than a railroad. (DOT disagreed) When railroads were finished being deregulated, the feasibility was killed.
It's a very interesting discussion when you see the private sector attempting to provide traditionally "public" services and vice versa. |
