plk
bo may sleep in loft
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join:2002-04-20
Ogden, IA
| Worse..... one provider of both services
I have one telephone provider who bought the cable company some time in the past. DSL is the only game in town at 69.00@256k a month plus another 40 for phone.
256k fastest speed offered.
They are suppose to roll out 512k@89.00 a month and 1 meg @ 129.00 a month.
If I look at other towns around Iowa, around the same size but with a cable provider offering HSI, I see prices $30.00 less for the same speed or faster. Note, I looked at other Coop's only serviced by Iowa Network services only.
If my taxes have to go up to get prices down, what's the difference? I'm lining the pockets of some investor, or pouring it in my community. At least its a local sink hole.
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reninator
join:2004-08-08
Breaux Bridge, LA
| here in LA they have put on the ballot in my communnity a tax for fiber to home. Previous to the vote going on the ballot a resident at a city council meeting asked the chairman if they could view a budget for the project. Councilmans response its in the works. A month later another city council meeting same concerned resident same councilman same response. These politicians want us to write them a blank check to install a fiber opitc infrastructure with no absolutely 0 accountability on how the money is going to be spent. I truly want the muni but my point is a project of that size and magnitude takes great care and planning and most local politians will somehow abuse the funds or the project will most likely be due to failure by poor financial planning.So i am going to vote it down i agree with the fact in keeping goverment out of private enterprise as too much regulation kills free enterprise but without some regulation then u end of with a monoply. trick is to find the happy medium between the two and dont forget cable is reaching most of its max physical capacities in the areas they offerring and as business and consumers needs to move larger and larger amounts of data increase so will broabands appeal and fiber will take over just like broaband did to dial up. So in about ten years i figure everyone will be bitching about fiber prices and its availability  |
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plk
bo may sleep in loft
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join:2002-04-20
Ogden, IA
| reply to plk
I understand your concern Reninator. If they can't answer these questions, they shouldn't be going forward until they can. So go back to the meeting and call them publicly on it. Tell them all, and write it in the paper, that you want FTTH, but not if they don't have a solid plan. Tell them you will have to vote no until they do.
Some Muni's are going to fail for many reasons. However, if the Bells and cables really felt this was the case, they would not be fighting it as hard as they can. A failed Muni especially a FTTH deployment would be a steal to buy from a city in a pinch.
I believe if the Bells etc would be laughing waiting to pick it up on the cheap. But, this to may not be the case. Yahoo, MSN, AOL and many others and investors could look to bypass the Bells and cables and pay top dollar for these FTTH networks in the future.
A poorly deployed FTTH network might not pay off all a cities debt, but a solid FTTH network sure the hell will not be worthless and some one will buy it. Very few will get stuck paying off a totally dead network.
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