Topmounter
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join:2001-02-20
Evergreen, CO | reply to JTRockville
Re: So... the 1300 jobs cost Lafayette taxpayers $
The Bellsouth person is concerned that... ...the municipally run fiber project could create a local monopoly.
I am at a loss for words. |
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cdru
Go Colts
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join:2003-05-14
Fort Wayne, IN | I think it's funny how giving consumers a choice is a monopoly. |
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ColdFiltered
join:2005-01-25
Atlanta, GA | I was thinking it had to do more with government competing in the free-market. When the government competes in the free market as a not-for-profit institution then no sane private or publicly traded company can afford to compete. |
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JTRockville
Data Ho
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join:2002-01-28
Rockville, MD
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| Private schools are doing just fine, even though free public schools exist. Lafayette won't be giving away subscriptions, so what's the problem?
Tacoma's Click! network is an example of a municipal system coexisting with investor-owned cable and telephone companies.
I don't see anyone going "belly up" over Lafayette's system, unless they're totally incompetent. |
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