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Tomek
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join:2002-01-30
Valley Stream, NY

Tomek

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Co-Op/ Muni

They should still be able to solve problem themselves. If demand is high enough they may provide their own broadband and government should offer some incentives due to the fact that Telcos refuse to offer services.

sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
MVM
join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ

sporkme

MVM

Re: Co-Op/ Muni

said by Tomek:

They should still be able to solve problem themselves. If demand is high enough they may provide their own broadband and government should offer some incentives due to the fact that Telcos refuse to offer services.
Until of course, Verizon starts their lobbying machine to stop any municipal deployment.

roamer1
sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA

roamer1

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Re: Co-Op/ Muni

said by sporkme See Profile[/bquote:

Until of course, Verizon starts their lobbying machine to stop any municipal deployment.
Bellhead mentality:

"we'd rather get no business at all from someone than only part of their business" (naked DSL)
"we don't want to provide service to X, so we don't want anyone else (except perhaps the local MSO) to either" (munis)

I just don't get it -- that wacky sort of thinking is heresy in nearly every other business.

-SC
sirhailstone
join:2001-12-01
Indianapolis, IN

sirhailstone to sporkme

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Bells: Experts in the SLAPP-type lawsuit. If they can't get what they want, hit the towns with SLAPPs (SLAPPs are actually lawsuits filed by cities against dissenting groups but hear me out) and the towns will spend so much defending the lawsuits they'll bust their budgets.

Meanwhile the Bells can just go to the utility regulatory commission and get a rate hike to compensate for the legal fees.