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join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| Re: Sounds like local pols just like spending money ... said by TK Junk Mail  :... and having control over some patronage jobs for friends and relatives. Now they are going to expand their fiefdom by adding WiFi in to the mix. You'll recall that local residents overwhelmingly approved municipal broadband. If they want it, then no one who doesn't live there has any business saying anything. The services a local government provides is the business of the local population, not any outside corporation looking to protect their profits.
If Cox and AT&T had invested in offering the services people wanted, they likely could have avoided this mess. Instead, they threatened residents with the loss of local jobs, launched misleading ad campaigns, filed lawsuits, and even got a couple of stooges to sue on their behalf--stooges who, I might add, didn't even have the guts to appear in court or any other public venue to explain themselves. Yeah, I really feel sorry for any company who would employ tactics like these. My heart bleeds when I think of all the money they're going to lose. | |
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truedalife
join:2003-01-10
Brooklyn, MD
| Bad for taxpayers! Another government agency! Municipally owned broadband is bad for a City and it's taxpayers. Real competition only happen when the business playing field is designed to encourage investment. I can't get my local Government to help the failing school here in Baltimore City (over $100 million dollars missing school funds). I don't think they will do a better job with a City wide Wi-Fi or FTTH project. This is very risky, and could leave the the taxpayers flipping the bills in the future. I can't get my trash picked up right by the City anymore and Rats are everywhere because of it.
Cheap prices, better service and newer products only come when there is real competition. Several companies investing in a City, upgrading and changing there systems as demands call for it. Your going to see allot of new products from the big players like Comcast, Verizon, TWC, DirecTV, Sprint and many more. Any publicly ran broadband services will always be behind the times, and require costly upgrades in the future.
The local government should not be involved in a free market enterprise business. It's a free market, your City should be reducing the red tape and lowering corporate taxes to encourage companies to invest in it's broadband future. If the local government is allowed to venture into any free market business, why not a chain of gas stations? Or Grocery stores?
If the true purpose of the City wide FTTH plans are to lower prices, can't this motto should work for any other high price services we pay for? My electric keeps going up, and I say let the local government build the power plants for me. How about building a Nuclear power plant at around 500 million dollars(they could use our tax dollars to build it). I hope you can see why this is wrong by now. Very wrong. | |
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stomp357
join:2003-04-13
Lake Charles, LA
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| Re: Bad for taxpayers! Another government agency! I don't think this is about getting cheaper broadband, but is more about moving ahead n technology. AT&T, and Cox refuse to upgrade, but don't want competition in the area that will. When ever competition arrives to do what they won't, the try underhanded tactics to cause waste of time, & money for the city. | |
| | PeterCollins
join:2005-05-23
Geneva, IL
| said by truedalife :If the true purpose of the City wide FTTH plans are to lower prices, can't this motto should work for any other high price services we pay for? My electric keeps going up, and I say let the local government build the power plants for me. If I'm not mistaken, Lafayette is already a municipal electric provider - »www.lus.org/site109.php
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City of Geneva, Illinois
pcollins@geneva.il.us
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join:2005-05-11
Duluth, GA
| Re: Good for Lafayette! The city isn't planning on acting like traditional competition in the free marketplace. They are a not-for-profit institution that seeks to subvert the free market, which in the end will only make matters worse.
And when the local sherif starts snooping your home network, because 'they can', you will simply bend over and take it like the good little man they want you to be. Governments don't like nor support privacy, and you are supporting this government.
Now lets have a look at your hard drives.  | |
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join:2007-04-23
Tuscaloosa, AL
| said by GhostDoggy :And when the local sherif starts snooping your home network, because 'they can', you will simply bend over and take it like the good little man they want you to be. Governments don't like nor support privacy, and you are supporting this government. Now lets have a look at your hard drives. And AT&T sure has a great track record of protecting customers' privacy. Looks to me like they already bent over for the feds.
If you think a major corporation gives a damn about your privacy, forget it. They don't care about you one bit. They answer to their shareholders, and unless you happen to hold enough stock to make a real stink about something, you won't even get their attention. | |
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batterup
I Can Not Tell A Lie.
Premium
join:2003-02-06
Netcong, NJ
clubs: | I hope they have a family safe internet. A a government they have a responsibility to make sure the internet doesn't carry any porn or illegal copyright material. | |
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jhboricua
ExMod 2000-01
join:2000-06-06
Minneapolis, MN
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| Re: I hope they have a family safe internet. said by batterup :A a government they have a responsibility to make sure the internet doesn't carry any porn or illegal copyright material. 
Setting aside the fact that doing this would be a 1st amendment violation, why do YOU feel it is the government role to make sure the internet doesn't carry any porn.
And what is illegal copyright material? | |
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join:2005-04-05
Monroe, LA | Can't wait :) With UL - Lafayette already having a stellar Engineering and Computer Science program, Lafayette is poised to become a tech city the south can be proud of. | |
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Lafayette Adds Wi-Fi to FTTH Plan
Sounds like local pols just like spending money ...
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