On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- 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
Laws can be changed if we can get enough momentum behind doing the right thing. Owen
