[Cialug] opportunity iowa

[n00b]

word!

by the way. not that the list needs politics involved, but please let your
representatives at the capital know how ya feel about this proposal. thats
the only way that it'll have a shot of surviving(not that i don't think
it'll make it or anything. i'm pretty optimistic).

-----Original Message-----
From: "Dave J. Hala Jr." <dave@58ghz.net>
To: Cialug <cialug@cialug.org>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 12:35:42 -0500
Subject: Re: [Cialug] opportunity iowa

> To make a long a story short, Mediacom (and others) are lobbying to
> pass
> legislation that will make it impossible for Municipalities to use to
> tax dollars to build fiber networks connecting the homes.
> 
> They wrongly use the ICN as a failed example. The telco's got
> legislation passed the prevents the ICN from making fiber connections
> past the point of presence in each community.  That is what killed the
> ICN.
> 
> They present Opp Iowa as a bad thing, when really opp Iowa's position
> is
> to use tax dollars to build the infrastructure, and then let anyone
> provide services. Mom & Pop ISP's, Telco's Municipalities, etc.  Its
> good for everyone, unless you already have a monolopy providing
> mediocre
> services.
> 
> :) Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 12:35, n00b wrote:
> > www.opportunityiowa.com (me thinks?)
> > 
> > from what i understand it would be a movement for Fiber to the home
> > (FTTH). dunno bout you guys, but I'm all about that. theres some
> towns
> > that are doing that in Iowa already, hell some rural areas have
> it(i.e.
> > farms).
> > 
> > just seems to make sense to me. why not use it now when its an
> inevitable
> > step in the evolution of global communication?? costs less to
> maintain and
> > gives more options to its use.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Champion <dave@visionary.com>
> > To: cialug@cialug.org
> > Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 10:59:12 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] opportunity iowa
> > 
> > > n00b wrote:
> > > > whats everyone think of this proposal? i'm sure there will be
> some
> > > > apprehension as it could be the end of some business. and people
> hate
> > > to
> > > > pay taxes.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > ... What proposal?
> > > 
> > > -dc
> > > 
> > > 
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