openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Navarre, FL
 ·Mediacom
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Re: I'd Rather Fight Than Switch?
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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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Pittsburgh, PA | 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
Navarre, FL
·Mediacom
| 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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