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[ NNSquad ] Re: How Lafayette, Louisiana built fiber, with dominant ISPs fighting them every step of the way
Let's be careful here. Lafayette is in hock for $110,000,000 and needs to repay that out of service revenues including cable. They can't assume infrastructure. As cable content goes over IP that revenue may dry up because of the Internet. The reason Lafayette can't build infrastructure is that the legislature prohibits it -- that's the real battle to be fought. Fighting the telco is the easy battle but, in the end, we've still got a telco/cableco. Fighting a disliked telco is the easy part but the city is now a telco/cableco. According to http://www.lafayettela.gov/pdf/Finance/Budget/2010BudgetSummary.pdf the annual spending is $500,000,000 year with $22,000,000 going to "communications system". If they can now channel their enthusiasm into changing the legislation they can repay the loan out of general revenue and then they will have an exciting infrastructure. It's an if -- I'd be interested in hearing more about how feasible that is. -----Original Message----- From: nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org [mailto:nnsquad-bounces+nnsquad=bobf.frankston.com@nnsquad.org] On Behalf Of Lauren Weinstein Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 01:36 To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org Subject: [ NNSquad ] How Lafayette, Louisiana built fiber, with dominant ISPs fighting them every step of the way How Lafayette, Louisiana built fiber, with dominant ISPs fighting them every step of the way http://bit.ly/9Symzk (ars technica) --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator