said by TKJunkMail 
:The electric company spokesman is happy that a 15 person test proves his BPL service is ready for deployment. It will be interesting to see if that evaluation holds up when the number of subscribers starts getting into the thousands - if it does indeed get that many people to sign on. Especially since the competitors have dropped their prices:»
www.chicagotribune.com/business/···ness-hedSince the city installed fiber and started testing BPL the local cable and phone operators upgraded their systems and cut service rates, he said.
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princeton-il.com/pdf/budget2005.pdf Municipal Utilities Budget in the amount of $12,462,962 (including $3,855,342 in capital expenditures)...
The Utilities Budget, which consists of the water, sewer, and electric operations,includes funding for several large capital projects including the new 1.5 million gallon water tower, the 12-mile fiber-optic backbone, and an update of the City’s comprehensive sanitary sewer plan.
Now that the cable and telco have dropped prices, the muni BPL may never get the # of customers they need to pay off the capital expenditures for the BPL system.
Which is why this type of predatory pricing these competitors engage in is illegal...not like anything will ever happen to them though.
