[ale] Fwd: Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband - Slashdot

[Jim Kinney]

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On Jan 24, 2012 11:30 PM, "rhia" <rhiannen at atlantacon.org> wrote:

> "who knew who money politics and possible corruption than just
> government screw up"
> That seems redundant.
>
> rhia
>
> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 19:25 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > It's a strange bill. It seem aimed at barring municipalities from
> providing
> > broadband service to their area because some early adopters got fleeced
> by
> > telecom providors during their roll-out. Later those providers acquired
> > access to municipality built lines for nearly $0 after being paid to
> > install them by the municipality!
> > The issue in Marrietta was more who knew who money politics and possible
> > corruption than just government screw up on technology. So the
> > municipalities want to do broadband because the telco/cable monopolies
> > won't touch their area.
> > I don't know the bill pusher but something smells fishy about it. One bit
> > is a ban on "below cost" service which isn't feasable for municipality
> > budgets.
> > Georgia politics are always strange.
> > On Jan 24, 2012 4:38 PM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > /. ran this story today - seems like something this list might be
> > > interested in talking to their reps about.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Pete Hardie <hardiep at cisco.com>
> > > Date: Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 14:17
> > > Subject: Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband -
> > > Slashdot
> > > To: "ZZ >> \"ZZZlink (gmail reminders)\"" <pete.hardie+link at gmail.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/24/1815220/georgia-bill-would-prohibit-subsidies-for-municpal-broadband
> > >
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