[139103] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sun Mar 27 02:37:05 2011
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:36:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <3BDFCDC0-2DD3-48CD-A3AA-711EBEE32D19@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> As such, I'm sure that such a move would be vocally opposed by
> the current owners of the LMI who enjoy leveraging it to extort
> monopolistic pricing from substandard services.
As I noted, yes, that's Verizontal, and they have apparently succeeded
in lobbying to have it made *illegal* in several states. I don't have
citations to hand, but there are a couple sites that track muni fiber;
I can find some.
Cheers,
-- jra
