Connected Nation...the saga continues

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technologist @charter.com from: disc	Connected Nation...the saga continues I am the Vice chairman of a Legislative sub-committee that deals with communications and technology. Mr. Medford appeared before our committee and made a presentation about the "successes" of Connect Kentucky. The presentation was professional, but that was about where the professionalism ended. He informed our sub-committee that he could do the same thing for our State for $2.5 million a year over a five year span ($12.5M)!! As a technology professional, I nearly fell out of my chair. (the vice chairman is not a Legislative Member, basically a civilian) My Chairman, who is a Legislator nearly had a stroke. I was able to ask Mr. Medford a single question and that was "Am I to understand that your company is advocating a single "cookie cutter" solution to every state in the US?" His response caught me off-guard. "He said that no one had done as much work in fashioning a solution to the problem of rural broadband and that YES he thought a single national solution would be in order. And that he thought that DSL speeds were all that was needed since the FCC recognized broadband as anything larger than 200kbs" A scam is too nice a word for what this is!!!!
technologist @charter.com from: disc	to forum · permalink · 2008-01-11 15:12:25 ·
sonnybadbutt join:2001-05-11 Elizabethtown, KY 1 edit	Remember that Mr. Medford was a Bell South employee in his former life. So this shouldn't be such a big shock. This kind of thinking leads to "give everything to the Bells that they want screw the rest."
sonnybadbutt join:2001-05-11 Elizabethtown, KY 1 edit	to forum · permalink · · 2008-01-11 15:56:50 ·


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