[139105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Mar 27 03:18:19 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <13648904.622.1301207775819.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:14:25 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- 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
Laws can be changed if we can get enough momentum behind
doing the right thing.
Owen
