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An appropriately-decentralized State Telcom Infrastructure, please. ;-)
http://perens.com/works/articles/MorganHill
Cheers,
- -sth
sam hooker|[email protected]|http://www.noiseplant.com
"The hurrier, the speed."
-Anon.
- ----- "Paul Flint" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear David,
>
> I am an old man now.
>
> Once when I was a young man a woman who said her name was Ms. Grace
> Slick
> sang this lyric:
>
> "When the truth is found, to be lies..."
>
> I accept your libertarian premise that government involvement with
> telecom
> infrastructure (or anything else) is harmful. However that said, how
> do we
> move forward? Can you tell me that the capitalist choices (Comcast,
> Charter, Fairpoint) are acceptable options in this area?
>
> With respect David my young Turk, deliver to this forum a vision that
>
> raises us out of the "fourth world" quality, service and bandwidth
> muck
> we face here in this state.
>
> Our futures depend upon you.
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Flint
>
> On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, David Storandt wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:14:24 -0400
> > From: David Storandt <[email protected]>
> > Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts
> <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Burlington Telcom/Other Muni Provider Question
> >
> > This setup is in RTP, North Carolina. Lots of bandwidth providers
> in
> > the neighbourhood for rock-bottom pricing. Comparing ECFiber's
> > upstream options is tougher, requiring more transport to get to a
> > major metro market for fat pipes.
> >
> > Expect rampant over-subscription and miserable quality for voice
> > and/or video. Decent customer service? They had to cut costs
> somewhere
> > to sell service based on "low prices".
> >
> > For a government group to compete against private industry,
> especially
> > markets with competition already, is a tough moral sell to
> capitalist
> > standards.
> >
> > -D
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Stanley Brinkerhoff
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> RE >> http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14934
> >>
> >> Does anyone have insight into how one might start a triple play
> provider
> >> setup? I'm not looking to do it -- so I dont mean 100% real life
> example..
> >> but .. where do you get enough bandwidth to offer 10/10 for $100?
> How do
> >> you get 81 cable channels and rights to distribute them?
> >>
> >> (The real life example would involve ECFibernet .. but who knows
> when I'll
> >> ever get that at my house).
> >>
> >> Stan
> >>
> >
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
>
>
> Paul Flint
> (802) 479-2360
>
>
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