>Here in Opelika, Alabama the city installed a city wide fiber optic
>network, the fiber comes to the home.
That's called municipal broadband and you are very fortunate to have
it. Only a few communities have managed to set it up.
Why? Because in many cases, the cost as a bond issue gets put on the
ballot for a vote in the next town election. Guess what happens in
the mean-time. Every ISP, namely the big players in town, spend
millions of dollars on a flood of direct mail for weeks on end warning
of the dangers of municipal broadband. Oh, your taxes will go sky
high (nonsense). We went through it where I live and there was a 5
week period when every single day there were at least two items of
junk mail from BIG ISP full of fear mongering. Sadly, most people
believed the propaganda.
73
rob
K5UJ
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