Combat Chuck
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Re: It's simple folks...
said by oliphant  :Personally I think the optimal situation for munis is line sharing. The bond pays for the deployment, then private content providers provide service paying the muni a lease or delivery fee per customer that pays back the bond. Then you have content providers trying to undercut each other because the margin isn't a given. And when one provider wants to cap you, their email sucks, their TOS/AUP is restrictive or their latest price increase is the last straw...you're only a phonecall away from switching. I agree with you on this, I feel the best situation would be for local governments that so choose to run fiber and whatever infrastructure needed to support that fiber and then lease out the lines to whoever wants to use them.
However, correct me if I'm wrong but, no "muni" I've seen wants to do this they want to run the whole thing end to end. They want control; they want to implement a price point that is lower than the private sector to hell with what the real price (as determined by the market) is; in short, they want another carrot to dangle in front of voters and those who would donate to their campaign.
I see the broadband conundrum as being similar to the issue of roads at the beginning of the age of the automobile (that being that there weren't enough and those that were there were built for the horse and buggy); the problem wasn't a lack of automobiles (or providers in this case), it was a lack of infrastructure.
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oliphant
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| If no muni is willing to do it...perhaps this could be the compromise between business and state governments who until now are looking at nothing but banning munis. So long as munis are looking to totally run their show then the opposition has nothing to lose battling them to the death.
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said by Combat Chuck :However, correct me if I'm wrong but, no "muni" I've seen wants to do this they want to run the whole thing end to end. They want control; they want to implement a price point that is lower than the private sector to hell with what the real price (as determined by the market) is; in short, they want another carrot to dangle in front of voters and those who would donate to their campaign. Correction: Tacoma leases their Click! network. |
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Combat Chuck
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| said by JTRockville :Correction: Tacoma leases their Click! network. yes but you as private industry still have to compete with the government run company correct?
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| Looks like TV is provided by the muni:
»www.click-network.com/Business/T···ault.htm
But network services are only provided solely by 3rd parties:
Residential network services are provided by THREE local companies:
»www.click-network.com/Business/H···ISPs.htm
Business network services are provided by FIVE local companies:
»www.click-network.com/Business/L···Page.htm
I'd guess Tacoma is also serviced by an ILEC (but I'm not sure who) and I'm pretty sure they're also serviced by an investor-owned cable company (I think Comcast). |
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Octopussy2
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Batavia, IL | Yes, Comcast. |
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