[Cialug] Fwd: City of Ankeny: Ankeny has caught the Google bug; intends to compete for Google ultra high-speed broadband opportunity

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Matthew Steven <matthew at geniusweb.com> wrote:
> Despite that, Spencer did not kick Mediacom out, though Mediacom's
> prices suddenly became far more realistic.
>
> Competition is good, and municipal systems can be used very effectively
> to break monopolies and raise quality of service for everyone.
>

I saw this same thing happen in Clearwater Florida.

My question is, why aren't CLECs succeeding at doing this same thing?
Des Moines has, imho, very expensive bandwidth for consumers.

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