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Re: Not so sure
said by mr sean  :That had to hurt TK, knowing that you don't always feel warm and fuzzy about municipal broadband. So in the interest of fair play: The article states that $400,000 is just part of the funding. The Co-op hopes to raise a total of $2,626,000 for 36 miles of a proposed 283 mile network. So that 36 miles would cost $40.40 per resident in the two counties. Sticking with the health-care comparison, that's less than my co-pay when I visit the ER. Sounds like B.S. to me. Verizon has gotten the cost down to about $900 per house passed. That does not count installation to each building. My guess is that is only the cost to run the cable. The nodes and splicing will be extra.
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Rundgren said the justification for governmental investment in such a system is to help create an infrastructure to help businesses do business.
I hope you members of the great unwashed don't think this will benefit you. You are going to pay for it with $2,000,000.00 in government hand outs, that is tax money for those of you that don't pay tax. 1/2 million will come from investors, investors want to make money on their investments. The people that want to connect to the network will have to buy one of the 74,000 shares that will be sold. A price was not given for the cost of a share. Verizon is installing FIOS for free. Not in my CO yet darn.
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The first phase would see 36 miles of broadband fiber from the Wythe County line through Pulaski County, including the towns of Pulaski and Dublin, to Christiansburg at the intersection of Virginia 114 and U.S. 460.
It would connect public schools, governmental administrative facilities, industrial parks, schools, New River Community College, the western campus of Radford University and the New River Valley Regional Jail. It would also be the start of a governmental network and provide access to businesses along the route.
If you are not the government or a fat cat business you are going to get squat. No one cares about the great unwashed, you don't have more then $40 a month to pay and that isn't going to cut it. |
