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Re: Local Government
said by pnh102  :In most examples cited on BBR, it is local government which gets in the way of advanced broadband deployments. Getting any opposition out of the way of these deployments will be good for everyone. Local government rarely, if ever, gets in the way of data service deployments. It's video service deployments that they object to.
These state-wide franchises grant video deployment rights only and say nothing about data service deployment. The telcos though do not want to deploy data services unless they can deploy video services, because, well, three times as many people watch cable tv than use high speed internet.
When video providers screw up (and they screw up more than any utility because of the nature of the utility), they are brought back in line through government oversight. If you look through the experiences in the various forums, look at the different levels of results obtained through the BBB, state PUC, state AG, and local FA. You will almost always find a better response and better results stemming from the local FA for single consumer issues.
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