[160216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Feb 2 15:36:27 2013
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2013 15:36:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <510D72CA.4000107@dylannguyen.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
---- Original Message -----
> From: "Dylan N" <dylan@dylannguyen.net>
> Out of curiosity, do you have plans for legal battles or anything?
> There have been some other places attempting or running muni broadband that
> have resulted in crap like the hilariously named "AN ACT TO PROTECT
> JOBS AND INVESTMENT BY REGULATING LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMPETITION WITH PRIVATE
> BUSINESS" bill.
Believe me, budgeting for both legal, and PR to make Verizo<um><ahem>any
large proprietary carrier look greedy and malign is in my plans, yes. :-)
TTBOMK, Florida is not a state where Verizon succeeded in making muni
ownership of the phy layer illegal. And since they're on record that
a) they were cherrypicking and
b) they're done now
it shouldn't be too hard to suggest their intentions.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII
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