[173268] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Mon Jul 21 17:09:01 2014
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:27:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> - the anti-muni laws hurt small localities the most, where none of the big
> players have any intent of deploying anything
This is exacatly why ashland fiber network came to be. Because no provider
was willing to step up and provide service. So the city did it.
If there were laws against it there, then ashland would still have no
service at all to this day.
-Dan
