openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
 ·AT&T Southeast
| reply to Sammer
Re: I'd Rather Fight Than Switch?
Sure they would have  Considering that providing these services wasn't an initial requirement when planning out the network, I find it odd to suggest that the municipality would have planned to lease the infrastructure to other providers. |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA | reply to openbox9
If the incumbents had supported the project in the first place Clarksville probably would have leased the infrastructure to them. By fighting the project because they want to own the infrastructure they screwed themselves. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
·AT&T Southeast
| reply to travelguy
Instead of competing with corporations (questionable tangent that has been painfully discussed around here), the municipality should have leased the infrastructure to various providers to alleviate some of the deployment cost...à la Utopia. I'm not so sure that I'd want my town providing telco, TV, internet access either. |
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travelguy
join:1999-09-03
Santa Fe, NM
| The cable and telcos are so shortsighted on this. I could understand they wouldn't want the competition if a government entity got into the business of selling TV programming or telephone services. I'm not sure I'd want my local government doing that either.
But it makes a huge amount of sense to throw the costs of maintaining the physical plant on a municipality and concentrate on marketing the various TV & voice apps. Kind of like the Utopia model. Then they've been fighting that as well. |
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