<p>It's a strange bill. It seem aimed at barring municipalities from providing broadband service to their area because some early adopters got fleeced by telecom providors during their roll-out. Later those providers acquired access to municipality built lines for nearly $0 after being paid to install them by the municipality! <br>
The issue in Marrietta was more who knew who money politics and possible corruption than just government screw up on technology. So the municipalities want to do broadband because the telco/cable monopolies won't touch their area. <br>
I don't know the bill pusher but something smells fishy about it. One bit is a ban on "below cost" service which isn't feasable for municipality budgets.<br>
Georgia politics are always strange.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2012 4:38 PM, "Pete Hardie" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
/. ran this story today - seems like something this list might be<br>
interested in talking to their reps about.<br>
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Date: Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 14:17<br>
Subject: Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband - Slashdot<br>
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