city vs telcos - dslreports.com

Author	All Replies
scott492002 join:2003-10-27	city vs telcos Ok here is my 2 cents worth. Where I live they (local gov) had a toll road built with bonds with the hope that the toll road would pay for itself in the years to come. Guess what? The road generates about 25% of projected income that they had hoped to get from it. Now they want us to pay for the road in higher taxes. I can see the same thing happening with the fiber thing. All the fiber gets put out there and they (local gov) has no one to work on it or it doesnt sell or people just didnt want it in the first place. Not every podunk backwoods hillbilly wants high speed internet. I know I have talked to them. Then the taxpayers are left with 125 million dollar peice of glass in the ground and not worth a crap. Still no reason not to be allowed to try it though. If I was the teleco I would let them then charge them out the a&& for anything else they needed to get to the outside, if anything. I say lets just deregulate the telcos and let them play on a level field with the cable co's and any little town that chooses to do so. I think you would see that 50 yrs of telecommunication experience will prove to be far better than someone with a good idea and no money to get it going. Ok 5 cents worth.
scott492002 join:2003-10-27	to forum · permalink · · 2005-02-10 21:58:07 ·
FiberNow @tsged.com	To address some of the issues mentioned: 1 - Lafayette, LA is not a "podunk, backwoods, hillbilly" town. We are a city of over 110,000... yes, there are actual cities in Louisiana. It's not like we're a town of 5,000 trying to roll out a $125 million project. 2 - The goal of this municipal project, as I understand it, is NOT really to turn a huge profit. Rather, to provide good, quality service to the citizens at a marginal profit, and in this one particular case, to hopefully pull some business back into Lafayette. (For anyone that doesn't know, Lafayette used to be an oil company mecca)
FiberNow @tsged.com	to forum · permalink · 2005-02-11 16:39:12 ·


Monday, 23-Nov 00:33:08	Terms of Use \| Privacy Policy \| Hosting by www.nac.net - DSL,Hosting & Co-lo \| feedback \| contact over 10 years online! © 1999-2009 dslreports.com. page compression OFF