| Its about the money Residents of Geneva, St. Charles, and Batavia IL already enjoy some of the lowest electricity rates in the state of Illinois. Why not extend that success to include other services which the market is currently NOT providing. Oh, and if you believe the above referenced study about DSL being available to Virtually all of Geneva, and some of St. Charles and Batavia, then have zero experience with actual DSL deployment. DSL is currently available to about 25% of the actual population of Geneva (since most of the most heavily populated newer residential neighborhoods are on the eastern and western edges of the town), and less than 5% of the actual populations of Batavia and St. Charles. Did I mention that ATT has not even provided a DATE yet for when cable modem service might be available. The are lighting up Dennis Hastert's hometown as we speak - but not the tri-cities - because no powerful politicians that could cause major trouble for ATT live there.
I hope this thing gets off the ground, because somebody needs to take the initiative and realize that modernizing our telecommunications infrstructure is critical to this nations future competitiveness. The private sector is being squashed right now by a half dozen 800 pound gorillas who want things to stay exactly as they are right now, and only move forward that the speed and quality that a half dead 800 pound gorilla can muster.
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| I'm curious....and this is bugging me.....was there any local chatter about why the cities allowed the franchise transfer of AT&T service to Comcast if they were so dissatisfied with the service there? |
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| Not really, The general feeling is that there's not much power the cities can leverage with their franchise agreements in this scenario. What they are doing is giving att/comcast as much run around as possible in renewing their franchises and only renewing them for 1 year at a time until they improve their service. Its more of an annoyance tactic than anything else.
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Peoria, IL | reply to Rob Froelich
said by Rob Froelich:
Residents of Geneva, St. Charles, and Batavia IL already enjoy some of the lowest electricity rates in the state of Illinois.
General FYI...
The municipal owned power company in Bushnell Illinois has the lowest rate of all the state. Plus they have given out a free month of service to residents just about every year. |
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