Hi Frank: Thanks for the update, bad news as it is. I had serious disagreements w/Nulty while he was a BTcom regarding the viability of his plan to enter areas underserved by comcast et. al. But considering that ECfiber was the best/last great hope of a non-commercial alternative, I feel saddened by its demise, if in fact true.
And, I know a lot of people in the 25 communities they polled last winter (2008) probably feel the same, despite their estimates for rollout being off (IMO) w/respect to blanket coverage into the hillsides, etc.. I'm surprised they didn't apply for stimulus funds as part of a shovel-ready project that was in keeping with VT broadband goals, or if they did, were denied funding. On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Frank Pagliughi wrote: > The plan was for private financing. Last I head, no one would lend them > the money to get started. They went for financing last September. What > timing! By last winter I believe they concluded that the only way they > would be able to borrow money during the "credit crisis" was if the Feds > gave loan guarantees. For half the amount, maybe? So they weren't > looking for money from the Feds, just a co-signer. They seem to think > that in this environment, without it, the project is dead. > > But now, maybe they have both hands out? > > I have no direct involvement; I've just been watching it closely for the > last two years. I live in Stockbridge. My broadband consists of a tin > can and a string. mine is almost analog to lighter-fluid, wood and a blanket. Worse now that my expectations of fairpoint reaching my house have been lowered to about 0 http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/08/25/1627259 Rion > > Frank -- 3010 Rte 109 Waterville, VT 05492 email: rion_at_dluz.com web: http://dluz.com/Rion/ AIM/Jabber/Google: riondluz Phone: 802.644.2255 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/126/769 I'd rather be a tax and spend liberal then a borrow and spend conservative.
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