All,
As quoted from the article;
"“The competitive impacts of municipal broadband will be especially
threatening to incumbents to the extent that muni nets can be cost-
justified
by increased efficiencies, cost savings and other ‘internal’ or social
benefits captured by local governments, schools, and other public
institutions,”
the report states."
While some understand the cost savings these networks can bring others
are still focused on the "free wifi cloud" for the population in these
areas. There needs to
be more focus on the fact that there are so many other benefits to these
municipal networks such as water meter reading, public safety
communications etc. For
these applications to work a robust network has to be built with the
following in mind low latency, 99999 reliability, high capacity, and so
on. Cost savings for
local government, businesses and residential should also be factored
into the equation for services such as telecommunications times X number
of phone lines just
for government offices and broadband access for all schools. I
understand that this is only the tip of the ice burg and there are so
many other applications and cost savings for these networks. My point is
that the network has to be built robust enough to be able to support it
all including a wifi cloud.
Thanks to Jack for bringing this article to the list. :-)
Regards,
Dawn DiPietro
Jack Unger wrote:
http://www.telecommagazine.com/newsglobe/article.asp?HH_ID=AR_2244
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