G_Poobah
join:2004-01-17
Schenectady, NY
| Didn't you know!
The problem is the consumers! They are a pack of lying, stealing communists! Voting to fund a muni broadband deployment that's taking food from childrens mouths! This kind of un-american activity must be supressed at all costs, cause what if other cities/towns came up with the same idea! Why, we could have 100mb symetrical internet access EVERYWHERE!
Here's just a small taste of the future!
Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, biblical?
Ray: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor... real Wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies.
Venkman: Rivers and seas boiling!
Egon: 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos.
Winston:The dead rising from the grave!
Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together... mass hysteria!
It's GOT TO STOP! GOD (well, at least the neo-con leader Pat Robinson tells us) WILL PUNISH THEM! |
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Pz_
join:2001-03-31
Brownsburg, IN
clubs: | I keep reading about the muni attempts here in Indiana, but I'm sure they will be squashed way before we get anything. Let alone 15 meg in both directions.
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
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join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
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It seems the consumers aren't as enamored of the Utopia network as you are.
»www.lightreading.com/document.as···=news1_4 The UTOPIA fiber network is still in the process of laying fiber in its 14 communities, and so far fewer than 2,000 are now receiving services. Most of those are customers of MStar, right now the primary service provider using UTOPIA’s wholesale network. »www.lightreading.com/document.as···id=81025
Instead of battle-planning for the RBOCs and sharing best practices, city managers and network equipment vendors here were addressing a more fundamental problem: How do you convince a bunch of folks in the middle of Utah that they need 100 Mbit/s going to their homes?
But even here at municipal broadband heaven, most of the 450,000 consumers passed by the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) network’s fiber are not yet clamoring to get hooked up.
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| Bring some of that SYMETRICAL fiber here to the S.F. Bay Area for $40 a pop... I bet ALOT people will sign! 
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL
1 edit | reply to TKJunkMail
That quote is pretty misleading.
The whole thing says:
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But even here at municipal broadband heaven, most of the 450,000 consumers passed by the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency (UTOPIA) network’s fiber are not yet clamoring to get hooked up. Out of the 5,000 to 8,000 Gould says are currently reached by UTOPIA's network, only around 500 have signed up.
They are currently just under 2000 customers according to your first quote. A 25% takeup rate at this early stage is pretty good IMO. |
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