re: Proposed Virginia Bill - Ban Municipal Broadband Ownership

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According to who?

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Reason

although at this point it may be out-dated, but i think that state governments have restricted the advancement of the muni-broadband industry and i dunno if there has really been many more attempts

the problem is that i've posted about this in other discussions about municipal broadband

here is one from last June

now, admittedly, i did use google to find THAT thread

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although at this point it may be out-dated, but i think that state governments have restricted the advancement of the muni-broadband industry and i dunno if there has really been many more attempts

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Muni-broadband can work with companies to lay down the fiber, and then select what level of service they want the company to provide.

These allow mid-sized companies (say, 100-200m a year in revenue) to build out in places that otherwise wouldn't be viable, and places where AT&T and Verizon will build out somewhere in the year 2189. A city comes to a company, a city of roughly 30-50k but not terribly close to a hub, and said company can work with that.

Verizon and AT&T don't want that, because they MIGHT one day KINDA SORTA want to POSSIBLY put fiber there. Doesn't matter to them that this means 50 years from now.