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 ·Verizon FiOS
| missed opportunity or lost cause? although some smaller municipal fiber deployments have been successful, it's harder to tell if the larger ones are beyond the capabilities of the local govts or if the games of the incumbents have taken their toll.
I don't believe there has been a single, major municipal fiber deployment that hasn't be fought tooth and nail by the incumbent. That city in Louisiana, has been harassed and sued for over a year by the incumbent (or a local citizen apparently backed by the incumbent), so that deployment was delayed a year or more because of incumbent resistance.
unfortunately, even if the incumbents don't think your business is profitable and refuse to serve you, they mobilize at the first sign of potential competition and do their best thru FUD in the press and mailings and in law suits, if necessary, to stop it. They may not want your business now, but if they might want it in the future, they don't want competition - they will give you the service they want to give you on the their schedule. If you don't like it and try to do something about it, they attack.
broadband in this county is not an open business - it belongs to the incumbents and nobody else is allowed to play if they can stop it. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | said by nasadude:That city in Louisiana, has been harassed and sued for over a year by the incumbent (or a local citizen apparently backed by the incumbent), so that deployment was delayed a year or more because of incumbent resistance. Lafayette is next in the municipal ISP spotlight. If Lafayette rolls into problems similar to that of UTOPIA, you can bet it will become very challenging for municipalities to convince their citizens that paying higher taxes for a connection to the Internet is a good thing. |
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 JTRockvilleData HoPremium,MVM
join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD
·Verizon FiOS
| reply to nasadude
said by nasadude:...That city in Louisiana, has been harassed and sued for over a year by the incumbent (or a local citizen apparently backed by the incumbent), so that deployment was delayed a year or more because of incumbent resistance. ... Ditto with that city in Tennessee. These incumbents need to build it or get out of the way (or both). |
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