what county here did that? Theres a community here that runs their own ISP, I believe its still functional. They also at one point had built a spaceship to hover over earth in ntil the end times were over or something. They have crystals everywhere and a children of the corn vibe. Maybe use that as an example of the only kind of municipalities who are successful in this endeavor. Then offer to build them a spaceship
On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 6:38 PM Daniel Pautz via AF <[email protected]> wrote: > Wasn't the big Provo, Ut network passed on to google for $1? I am sure > there is a ton to that story but that is the first one to come to mind. > > -----Original Message----- > From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Nate Burke > Sent: Monday, July 12, 2021 5:15 PM > To: Animal Farm <[email protected]> > Subject: [AFMUG] Public broadband failures > > Does anyone know a compiled list of community broadband projects that have > received federal funds then failed or got sold off? > > One of the counties in our service area is in the process of 'thinking > about > building a fiber network that we(they) will run ourselves' We're looking > for examples we can give them where the government built then network, but > was then unable to continue to run it, or it didn't play out the way they > expected. > > Here in Illinois, another county just recently transferred their BTOP > funded > Fiber network to a private entity because they were convinced they didn't > want to run it anymore (there's more to the story, but that's the long and > short from what I gather) There's gotta be stories like this all over, has > there been a list compiled somewhere? > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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