----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
> As such, I'm sure that such a move would be vocally opposed by > the current owners of the LMI who enjoy leveraging it to extort > monopolistic pricing from substandard services. As I noted, yes, that's Verizontal, and they have apparently succeeded in lobbying to have it made *illegal* in several states. I don't have citations to hand, but there are a couple sites that track muni fiber; I can find some. Cheers, -- jra