I'm excited about Lafayette's efforts, but I have to admit that I'm a bit wary of letting the government replace private industry in providing services. I'd feel much more comfortable if the goal of LUS was to build the infrastructure and then lease out the bandwidth to competing companies to provide their own services. I think the goal of government should be to enable technology and business, not compete with it. Building a fiber infrastructure in a town like Lafayette would allow smaller local companies to provide the services that BellSouth and COX do, but be more flexible and keep the money local.
-Tim On Wed, 2005-01-05 at 16:01 -0800, John Hebert wrote: > Makes me damn proud to be a Cajun. And Eatel is pretty > much doing the same thing here in Ascension Parish! > > Maybe I am biased. Are there any downsides to > communities running their own broadband networks? Will > it be inevitable, since the costs are coming down so > fast? I mean, imagine in a few years what wireless > technologies will cost and the coverage/performance > they will offer. It makes sense that the big telecomms > are running scared, but we (the public) should not let > them pursue legal solutions to their technological > inertia. > > John > > > --- Tim Fournet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "To hear BellSouth talk, high-speed fiber lines are > > the way of the > > future. So why is it so determined to stop > > Lafayette, La., a rural > > community in the heart of Cajun country, from > > installing its own fiber?" > > > > > http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-01-03-fiber-cover_x.htm# > > > > Slashdot Article: > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl? > > > sid=05/01/05/029222&tid=95&tid=215&tid=103&tid=17&tid=219 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
