<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 12:50 PM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 03/07/2015 12:47 PM, Brian Mathis wrote:<br>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Jay Lozier <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a><br>
</span><div><div class="h5">> <mailto:<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
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> To me, the better solution is not allow the there to be local<br>
> monopolies. In many communities, the monopoly exists because local<br>
> governments granted an exclusive franshise to a cable provider. A<br>
> single, local provider in theory means better local control but CobbEMC<br>
> management had been defrauding the members for years. As someone who<br>
> lives in their service area I would love the chance to use someone else.<br>
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> With services like this, you need to have local monopolies on some level,<br>
> otherwise you'd have a different set of wires running everywhere for each<br>
> service provider, and the streets would be constantly under construction as<br>
> other providers were installing new lines, etc..., which has other negative<br>
> impacts. This is the reason that exclusive franchises are granted in the first<br>
> place (often with large tax breaks).<br>
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</div></div>We have Naked DSL ... we need naked coax and naked fibre too.<br>
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Sorta like the atlanta gas setup.<br></blockquote></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Right. And gas is regulated as a utility.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>❧ Brian Mathis<br></div>@orev<br></div></div></div>
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