Karl Bode
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Re: Municipal Broadband FINALLY gets attention
It would depend on what works. All I ever want to see is each community being allowed to decide for themselves.
There are about a million ways to fund, construct, and run a muni-broadband system. I don't care how the people there vote.
My problem is with these bills that ban them from considering it, and the massive disinformation campaigns being waged to confuse and mislead voters. |
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| NOW on PBS is offering up a special on muni-broadband, specifically focused on PA's Wi-Fi effort:
»www.pbs.org/now/
»www.pbs.org/now/politics/digidiv···ate.html
How long NOW before they begin digging into the stuff I've been talking about in Indiana, where Comcast/SBC spent a quarter million dollars vs. a small community outfit that spent $4,000.
Or Lafayette, where BellSouth has threatened to pull 1,300 jobs if the city builds a triple-play fiber network.
Few yet are touching on the use of Issue Dynamics Astroturf to feed disiniformation to consumers. That's a big part of this as well.
This is a very DEEP and very SLEAZY story that they've only brushed the surface of. |
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join:2000-03-02 | CNET wouldn't have touched a story like this six months ago:
»news.com.com/Lafayette+hits+snag···nefd.top |
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said by Karl Bode  :All I ever want to see is each community being allowed to decide for themselves. Looks like Copps (for one, anyway) agrees.
said by CNET News.com interview with Michael Copps, FCC Commissioner:
Why our broadband policy’s still a mess
by Jim Hu, February 28, 2005
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The Bells say that government should not be competing with the private sector.
They are not out there trying to put broadband in the municipality. Where is the competition?
The Bells also say they're trying to protect residents from being unfairly taxed if such an infrastructure were to go belly-up.
Well, a municipality is a democratically run institution. They can make their own decisions. They don't need the Bells. They don't need the Administration, and they don't need me telling them what kind of decision they should be making.
...snip...
Why in the world would the Bells be trying to protect residents?
Isn't it their duty to protect profits? |
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Why in the world would the Bells be trying to protect residents?
Because "We don't want to have to work harder and potentionally lose revenue" isn't a very impressive argument from a PR standpoint.  |
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