MattE
Obama '08
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC |  Wait for it ....
Be patient, the cries of the anti-muni folks will be along shortly.
On a more serious note, I wonder why more muni's don't attempt to obtain private financing? |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
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join:2001-03-29
The Lou
 ·Charter Pipeline
| Muni networks fail.
More private funding for what? To try to run a network that they neither have the long term vision nor support to run?
I don't see anything wrong with local governments wanting to deliver services to their own residents. What I have seen, however, it a failure of anything not run by a business to succeed. The focus a business can give in deploying, developing, and progressing an infrastructure like this is above and beyond what any government in the US can come close to.
Case in point, look at UTOPIA. They were a customer's dream 3-4 years ago. Look at them now. Barely staying afloat. Is it the network? The advertising? The execution? Who knows, but the reality is, something didn't work...and they had everything handed to them on a silver platter...and failed.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
·Cox HSI
 ·AT&T Southwest
| said by DaSneaky1D  :Is it the network? The advertising? The execution? Their competition trying hard to knock them out? (Yes)......and they had everything handed to them on a silver platter...and failed. Explain how they had ANYTHING handed to them. They've had to do everything from scratch, all the while fighting roadblocks and red-tape every step of the way. That hardly sounds like having anything handed to them to me.
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"Regulatory capitalism is when companies invest in lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians, instead of plant, people, and customer service." - former FCC Chairman William Kennard (A real FCC Chairman, unlike the current Corporate Spokesperson in the job!) |
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