-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 this is why I see municipal broadband, both wifi AND fiber to the home stuff as a GREAT way for us to rid the bad monopolies like comcast and quest, and bring good service back to the network. The city builds out a good fiber optic infrastructure, this prevents the need for multiple privately owned network infrastructures. (cable, POTS copper, ricochet, etc) This network provides the perfect infrastructure for wifi. Using vlans, and QoS, they can partition the network, and allow private compnaies to provide the service endpoints of the network, phone, video, Internet, whatever. This solves the city problem of needing infrastructure at a reasonable cost to itself for it's services (fire, police, medical, utilities) And solves the Libertarian problem with municipal competition. The city need not be a services provider for Internet on the wifi/fiber. It also prevents the problem of businesses not providing for the "under services" areas of the city. The city builds the roads, the businesses provide the taxis. - -ben "Unix is user friendly, Its just picky about its friends." On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > Oh, I dunno... I read that and the first thought to my head is, "And > where did the telcos and cable providers get their monopolies?" Is > it a true market failure if the problems are caused by a government- > granted monopoly? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJPNvfYg2asD844oRAvg9AJ4wu5IH4rMAJlBUIxsJR9DlwgUIFwCgq0Vp n0j9RoWsHxayGMO69oC5o4k= =5x3M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----