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What is Fiber?

To get back on track a little....CONGRATS Lafayette!!!! I knew you could/would pass your referendum! With political support from both parties and support from businesses, realtor associations, Home Builders, and many, many others, there was no way you were going to lose! You also had the support from your Chamber of Commerce. That was key.

We are proud of you up here in the Tri-Cities!!! WAY TO GO! You had vision and you are the big envy of a lot of people at the moment. Savor your victory!
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I think it is great that they voted to install fiber...This country is based on popular vote. So how can Telco's like Verizon, SBC etc. be able to stop a city from installing there own fiber. I dont get it? Anyway congrats to Lafayette.

You guys don't bitch when your local city government entity deems certain websites 'offensive' or 'pornography' on this municipal project and starts filtering content. Not saying its gonna happen, but all it takes is a few councilmen/women to raise a stink and start implentmenting filters.

I'd also like to see #'s of this city of 110,000 of how many plan to subscribe and how many the muni needs to stay out of the red.

reply to clickart5
fiber is faster-cable

cable usually uses copper, fiber uses light, which can trasmit data much faster with less loss.
max theoretical rate for fiber approach 100gb/s i heard, as oppose to 100mb/s for cable.

residents should be able to get 10-15mb/s on fiber...at near or less than cable price.

Finally someone who actually answered the question.

Now as for City Council using the municipal broadband to censor content that's not likely to happen. For one this project is not controlled by City Council. They are just getting the ball rolling. Council members can raise a stink all they want, but they won't have the option to "vote out" Playboy.com and whatnot. Second you have seen the kind of backlash that happens when communities try to ban just library content. You'll get that to the Nth degree trying to close entire web portals.