>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Barry <[email protected]> writes:
Russell> http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/18/1739236 Russell> "[...] part of the explanation for the low cost is that the Russell> city owns a municipal fiber network reaching every block." Russell> How about them apples? Bill> I would say that it would be difficult to know how much those Bill> apples cost. It is also "free" for me use the highways between Bill> here and Newport, but does that mean they don't cost me Bill> anything? Somehow they used over $1e8 of someone's money just on Bill> new bridges in that stretch of road. Not *too* difficult though. Similar networks here in the US (which pay for themselves), while maybe not quite $11/month yet, are pretty damned reasonable for what you get. Utilities are usually completely self-financing, capital and operating costs being paid by user fees. It cost a lot of money to build our water supply system here in Portland too, much more than a fiber build, but it didn't get paid for with taxes. Folks need to be a little bit more aspirational here. We don't have to wallow in over-priced mediocrity. -- Russell Senior, Secretary [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
