| We need more Lafayettes! We need more communities like Lafayette, LA and Wilson, NC to step up! My take is that the FCC and local communities need to say "if you won't upgrade the community in 3 years, you'll allow someone else to do it". Forget these monopolistic local franchise agreements - make them serve the community, not serve the shareholders. If you don't want to serve this community, let someone else step in and do it.
I live within walking distance of AT&T's U-Verse HQ and Time Warner's regional HQ (both are down the street from where I work, and less than 2 miles from my house). My options are $55 7/.375 or $65 10/.5 cable or DSL where the price changes when the wind blows. And this is supposedly the most wired area in the country, according to Forbes!
No wonder communities want Google - to break out of this monopoly. |
