Rollup: Small City Municipal Broadband

Sat Feb 2 20:36:16 UTC 2013

---- Original Message -----
> From: "Dylan N" <dylan at dylannguyen.net>

> Out of curiosity, do you have plans for legal battles or anything?
> There have been some other places attempting or running muni broadband that
> have resulted in crap like the hilariously named "AN ACT TO PROTECT
> JOBS AND INVESTMENT BY REGULATING LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMPETITION WITH PRIVATE
> BUSINESS" bill.

Believe me, budgeting for both legal, and PR to make Verizo<um><ahem>any 
large proprietary carrier look greedy and malign is in my plans, yes. :-)

TTBOMK, Florida is not a state where Verizon succeeded in making muni 
ownership of the phy layer illegal.  And since they're on record that

a) they were cherrypicking and
b) they're done now

it shouldn't be too hard to suggest their intentions.

Cheers,
-- jra
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