Owen DeLong wrote:
On Mar 26, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
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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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
