I tend to agree with you Tim. I'm not sure why the city government in Lafayette feels it's need to use tax payer money to provide broadband. Yet, a case can be made that if the private sector isn't providing a good solution then government should step in and do something about it. I guess it depends on your political leanings.
Personally, I'm not sure it's a good use of tax payer dollars. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Fournet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:01 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Louisiana in tech news again > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
