[139106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Painter)
Sun Mar 27 03:36:05 2011
From: "Michael Painter" <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 21:35:55 -1000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen DeLong wrote:
> 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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
