[173225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Iannone)
Mon Jul 21 12:46:55 2014
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From: Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:46:27 -0600
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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There was a muni case in my neck of the woods a couple of years ago.
Comcast spent an order of magnitude more than the municipality but
still lost.
Anyway, follow the money. "Blackburn=E2=80=99s largest career donors are .=
.
PACs affiliated with AT&T ... ($66,750) and Comcast ... ($36,600). ...
Blackburn has also taken $56,000 from the National Cable &
Telecommunications Association."
http://www.muninetworks.org/content/media-roundup-blackburn-amendment-light=
s-newswires
In other news, FIOS has gone symmetrical.
http://newscenter.verizon.com/corporate/news-articles/2014/07-21-fios-uploa=
d-speed-upgrade/
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> Over the last decade, 19 states have made it illegal for municipalities
> to own fiber networks -- encouraged largely, I am told, by Verizon and
> other cable companies/MSOs[1].
>
> Verizon, of course, isn't doing any new FiOS deployments, per a 2010
> press release[2].
>
> FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has been making noises lately that he wants the FCC
> to preempt the field on this topic, making such deployments legal.
>
> Congressional Republicans think that's a bad idea:
>
> http://www.vox.com/2014/7/20/5913363/house-republicans-and-obamas-fcc-are=
-at-war-over-city-owned-internet
>
> [ and here's the backgrounder on the amendment:
>
> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/blackburn-bill-would-blo=
ck-fcc-preemption/132468 ]
>
> While I generally try to avoid bringing up topics on NANOG that are polit=
ical;
> this one seems to be directly in our wheelhouse, and unavoidably politica=
l.
> My apologies in advance; let's all try to be grownups, shall we?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
> [1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fi=
berbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
> [2] https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Again-Confirms-FiOS-Ex=
pansion-is-Over-118949
> --
> Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylin=
k.com
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