[160166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Fri Feb 1 11:36:27 2013
Date: 1 Feb 2013 11:36:05 -0500
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Dave Sparro" <dsparro@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <510BD07D.3000107@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> The muni providers have a bunch of cost advantages that help them keep the
> price lower.
Yes, but:
A) NYSEG customers are still paying off boondoggles due to incompetent
current and former management that have nothing to do with their
for-profit status
B) So what? The customers get better service at lower price.
FWIW, I can report that as municipal water and sewer commissioner,
although technically we could foreclose, we never have. The threat of
disconnection is quite adequate to get people to pay.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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