NOCMan
Verizon Fios User
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join:2004-09-30
Flower Mound, TX
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Re: Good for everyone - Except Landline Providers
I know it's not the solution you want to hear, but the city is free to put up it's own tower, and interface with the telephone companies. You'd make money off roaming charges.
Eventually one company or the other gets tired of it, and buys the tower and keeps the service going. |
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PolarBear
The bear formerly known as aaron8301
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join:2005-01-03
 ·CableOne
| said by NOCMan  :I know it's not the solution you want to hear, but the city is free to put up it's own tower, and interface with the telephone companies. You'd make money off roaming charges. Actually, that sounds to me like the perfect solution. It may not provide great prices or competition, but expensive service is better than no service at all (HughesNet, anyone?). |
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voipdabbler
join:2006-04-27
Kalispell, MT
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Well, it's a town not a city so they don't have flexibility in their budget, especially since they're in a county that's located in the middle of a national forest and the largest landowner, Uncle Sam, doesn't pay any property tax by virtue of sovereign immunity. ( Private land owners in their county only make up 8-10 percent of land holdings, but must pay all the costs for county services.) Furthermore, the spectrum is already owned by one of the major carriers, so they'd have to work out an agreement, and to date, the carrier who owns the spectrum has shown no interest in talking to the town about anything. (The spectrum auctions haven't been that well thought out, since the issue of providing actual service within certain density zones or less densely-populated regions near our southern or norther borders hasn't been addressed.) Thank goodness when the original infrastructure for POTS was built the government actually regulated industry and demanded the infrastructure be built out to serve many communities. (Yes, they gave concessions, namely monopoly status, but it was a compromise that worked to everyone's benefit.) |
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