 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | reply to firephoto
Re: ENOUGH! said by firephoto:The law in washington forbids public utilities or municipalities from providing internet or network services directly to a consumer. It MUST go through a private retailer. What if, say, a specific ISP came in and worked with the community and municipalities and deployed a working network? |
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join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
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| said by Simba7: What if, say, a specific ISP came in and worked with the community and municipalities and deployed a working network?
That method is in Washington ,as well as utilities or other gov't/citizen owned agentcies building and owning the network, however the actual ISP you connect to over that network must be a seperate non-gov't orgainization, something like Utopia runs.
Citizens could form a not for profit co-op, and run it as an ISP over the network, competing with the other (purely private, for profit) ISPs. |
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 firephotoFacts hurtPremium
join:2003-03-18
Brewster, WA | reply to Simba7
said by Simba7:said by firephoto:The law in washington forbids public utilities or municipalities from providing internet or network services directly to a consumer. It MUST go through a private retailer. What if, say, a specific ISP came in and worked with the community and municipalities and deployed a working network? That's allowed, it's private. Only publicly owned networks are forbidden from offering internet or network connections to end users... and providing service. I clarify the last part because in the case of the Motorola Canopy setup here it is fully deployed by the utility and ISP (they don't atually call themselves ISP's anymore here for some reason) installs the CPE.
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