<p>True</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 24, 2012 11:30 PM, "rhia" <<a href="mailto:rhiannen@atlantacon.org">rhiannen@atlantacon.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
"who knew who money politics and possible corruption than just<br>
government screw up"<br>
That seems redundant.<br>
<br>
rhia<br>
<br>
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 19:25 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> It's a strange bill. It seem aimed at barring municipalities from providing<br>
> broadband service to their area because some early adopters got fleeced by<br>
> telecom providors during their roll-out. Later those providers acquired<br>
> access to municipality built lines for nearly $0 after being paid to<br>
> install them by the municipality!<br>
> The issue in Marrietta was more who knew who money politics and possible<br>
> corruption than just government screw up on technology. So the<br>
> municipalities want to do broadband because the telco/cable monopolies<br>
> won't touch their area.<br>
> I don't know the bill pusher but something smells fishy about it. One bit<br>
> is a ban on "below cost" service which isn't feasable for municipality<br>
> budgets.<br>
> Georgia politics are always strange.<br>
> On Jan 24, 2012 4:38 PM, "Pete Hardie" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > /. ran this story today - seems like something this list might be<br>
> > interested in talking to their reps about.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
> > From: Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:hardiep@cisco.com">hardiep@cisco.com</a>><br>
> > Date: Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 14:17<br>
> > Subject: Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband -<br>
> > Slashdot<br>
> > To: "ZZ >> \"ZZZlink (gmail reminders)\"" <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie%2Blink@gmail.com">pete.hardie+link@gmail.com</a>><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/24/1815220/georgia-bill-would-prohibit-subsidies-for-municpal-broadband" target="_blank">http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/24/1815220/georgia-bill-would-prohibit-subsidies-for-municpal-broadband</a><br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > Pete Hardie, Goalie, SPVTG Dart Team<br>
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> ><br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
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