Bad for taxpayers! Another government agency! in http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r18331559 en Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:36:27 EDT Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:36:27 EDT Re: Bad for taxpayers! Another government agency! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18341556 JTRockville : If the citizens of Lafayette weren't happy with LUS as an electric provider (either price-wise or service-wise), why would they have voted for municipal fiber?

Could it be that municipal systems are actually good for the community?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18341556 Tue, 15 May 2007 22:50:52 EDT Re: Bad for taxpayers! Another government agency! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18333749 PeterCollins :
said by truedalife See Profile :

If the true purpose of the City wide FTTH plans are to lower prices, can't this motto should work for any other high price services we pay for? My electric keeps going up, and I say let the local government build the power plants for me.
If I'm not mistaken, Lafayette is already a municipal electric provider - »www.lus.org/site109.php
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630.232.1743]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18333749 Mon, 14 May 2007 17:09:39 EDT Re: Bad for taxpayers! Another government agency! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18332016 stomp357 : I don't think this is about getting cheaper broadband, but is more about moving ahead n technology. AT&T, and Cox refuse to upgrade, but don't want competition in the area that will. When ever competition arrives to do what they won't, the try underhanded tactics to cause waste of time, & money for the city.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18332016 Mon, 14 May 2007 12:20:50 EDT Bad for taxpayers! Another government agency! http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18331559 truedalife : Municipally owned broadband is bad for a City and it's taxpayers. Real competition only happen when the business playing field is designed to encourage investment. I can't get my local Government to help the failing school here in Baltimore City (over $100 million dollars missing school funds). I don't think they will do a better job with a City wide Wi-Fi or FTTH project. This is very risky, and could leave the the taxpayers flipping the bills in the future. I can't get my trash picked up right by the City anymore and Rats are everywhere because of it.

Cheap prices, better service and newer products only come when there is real competition. Several companies investing in a City, upgrading and changing there systems as demands call for it. Your going to see allot of new products from the big players like Comcast, Verizon, TWC, DirecTV, Sprint and many more. Any publicly ran broadband services will always be behind the times, and require costly upgrades in the future.

The local government should not be involved in a free market enterprise business. It's a free market, your City should be reducing the red tape and lowering corporate taxes to encourage companies to invest in it's broadband future. If the local government is allowed to venture into any free market business, why not a chain of gas stations? Or Grocery stores?

If the true purpose of the City wide FTTH plans are to lower prices, can't this motto should work for any other high price services we pay for? My electric keeps going up, and I say let the local government build the power plants for me. How about building a Nuclear power plant at around 500 million dollars(they could use our tax dollars to build it). I hope you can see why this is wrong by now. Very wrong.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,18331559 Mon, 14 May 2007 10:54:50 EDT