On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 2:57 PM, S. Dale Morrey <[email protected]> wrote: > I would be very, very concerned about Google buying Utopia. Leasing > capacity as a provider, ok. But introducing yet another monopoly when we > were promised competition would be emotionally disconcerting to me.
I agree, but the pessimist in me doubts Google would just join as a Utopia provider. Google has a historical tendency to want to control all of that. I think it would be more likely that Google would just buy Utopia. Since Utopia is still struggling, I think the Utopia cities would jump on the chance to have it sold to get their money back if Google was to offer. If Google did neither and just competed with Utopia it would be disaster. Utopia can't compete with Google, and Utopia cities would be left with defaulted bonds. That would be sad. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
