<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Eric Junker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@eric.nu">eric@eric.nu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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It seems the best way to get more broadband would be for the cities to<br>
establish municipal broadband service. I know there are many communities<br>
in Iowa that have done this such as Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Indianola,<br>
Spencer, etc.<br>
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Eric<br>
</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Even the municipalities have competition from the big boys. After living in Spencer for a few years, a trend was firmly established - if SMU customers had a speed issue, they'd send someone out to work on the lines - the same lines that Mediacom worked on. This would, in turn, cause issues for the Mediacom customers, thus leading the Mediacom techs to arrive to work on the lines, and so it keeps going back and forth, back and forth, until everyone's using one provider and not the other. Of course, that'll never happen, but ultimately the connection stayed up and going strong rather well.<div>
<br>-- <br>Scott Prader<br>Undergraduate Electrical Engineer<br>CARC, SSCL<br><a href="mailto:sprader@iastate.edu" target="_blank">sprader@iastate.edu</a><br><br>
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