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re: Help bring a city-wide fiber internet network to Baton Rouge
Posted on 6/15/16 at 1:16 pm to Tigerpaw123
Posted on 6/15/16 at 1:16 pm to Tigerpaw123
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and after millions of dollars spent new technology would come in and make it obsolete....no thank you
Those roads are just going to get more pot holes, why patch and fix them?
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Posted on 6/15/16 at 1:19 pm to LSURussian
I agree with LSURussian and emailed my councilman to ask him to vote no.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 1:20 pm to Tigerpaw123
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EATEL put in a full fiber network in Ascension and did so without tax money, why can BR not do the same?
Posted on 6/15/16 at 8:20 pm to Count Chocula
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My personal opinion is that govt should never compete with private enterprise. Govt runs out of money, it endlessly raises your taxes.
It's a bit different for Laffy though. Because it's a public utility, it just needs to break even, not make huge profits. As I understand it, the service has been in the black for some time.
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:03 pm to jdd48
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:04 pm to Hulkklogan
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a contract to explore a plan
Baton Rouge is the poster child for throwing lots of money at studies.
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:34 pm to BRTiger2005
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Building a public-private partnership model where a private ISP like Google, Ting, Cox, AT&T, or EATEL enter into a shared risk model where the physical infrastructure is offset by private investment.
This is what the end game is. Service providers want the tax payers to fund their infrastructure so they can turn around and jack their prices up. What a crock of fricking horse shite and the leeches on the council are getting paid to vote it in.
Keep the blinders on BR, you are getting hosed.
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:36 pm to icegator337
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icegator337
You obviously know nothing about technology or service providers.
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:40 pm to Dire Wolf
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Y'all don't understand how fricked we currently getting by Internet providers. Having a fiber network will drop internet cost.
Do you think this is going to provide you with free Internet?
People hear the word fiber and think that Internets just appear out of thin air.
There is enough fiber in this city to wrap around the globe a fee times. What do y'all think more fiber is going to do?
This post was edited on 6/22/16 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:52 pm to shawnlsu
The problem with fiber that is currently laid in the city is that it is proprietary. It's Cox, ATT, and Entergy fiber. Municipal fiber would be leased, which mean other companies would be able to come into Baton Rouge without fronting infrastructure costs, which is huge. Should Baton Rouge lay municipal fiber, it could be a large source of revenue for the city and increase ISP competition, driving down pricing for consumers.
This post was edited on 6/22/16 at 8:56 pm
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:53 pm to Bmath
I see it as a positive sign, at least. They unanimously agreed it's worth throwing $150k to look into.
Posted on 6/22/16 at 8:58 pm to BRTiger2005
That link took way too long to load.
frick we need fiber internet bad.
Still waiting....
Still waiting....
frick we need fiber internet bad.
Still waiting....
Still waiting....
This post was edited on 6/22/16 at 9:02 pm
Posted on 6/22/16 at 9:02 pm to Hulkklogan
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Municipal fiber would be leased,
This already happens all over the city/state/country. This is nothing new and a complete waste of money. Companies lease their dark fiber out to other companies every single day.
But this is what the council is betting on, uneducated populace and their pockets getting padded
This post was edited on 6/22/16 at 9:11 pm
Posted on 6/23/16 at 8:32 am to shawnlsu
I know this happens. I am a network admin at an ISP. We lease fiber and pay for leased fiber all over the place.
The idea behind this is that the entire city will have municipal fiber and outside companies can come in and use it. Right now, the companies that own the fiber can pick and choose who uses their fiber, and can minimize the competition by prohibitively pricing their fiber leasing. The city pricing would most likely be regulated and the same for everyone.
Do you honestly believe that Cox or AT&T would lease enough of their dark fiber to allow another ISP to come in and offer competitive TV and internet service?
The idea behind this is that the entire city will have municipal fiber and outside companies can come in and use it. Right now, the companies that own the fiber can pick and choose who uses their fiber, and can minimize the competition by prohibitively pricing their fiber leasing. The city pricing would most likely be regulated and the same for everyone.
Do you honestly believe that Cox or AT&T would lease enough of their dark fiber to allow another ISP to come in and offer competitive TV and internet service?
This post was edited on 6/23/16 at 8:33 am
Posted on 6/23/16 at 8:36 am to Hulkklogan
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Approved a contract to explore a plan of building out a fiber infrastructure.
And two years from now there will be a board that is created to convene to research the findings of the plan of building out a fiber infrastructure, and two years after that the board's opinion on the findings will be considered before the metro council, who will then have changes made to the contract, which will take three years to implement because it's mostly nonsensical ramblings of politicians with no technological knowledge, and 15 years later...boom. Free internet. Which will probably be obsolete at that point anyway.
Progress.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 8:37 am to AbitaFan08
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Free internet
Would be nice but not the point of the proposal.
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And two years from now there will be a board that is created to convene to research the findings of the plan of building out a fiber infrastructure, and two years after that the board's opinion on the findings will be considered before the metro council, who will then have changes made to the contract, which will take three years to implement because it's mostly nonsensical ramblings of politicians with no technological knowledge, and 15 years later...boom
This is the most likely scenario, unfortunately.
Posted on 6/23/16 at 8:40 am to Hulkklogan
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Would be nice but not the point of the proposal.
I was kind of making the joke that after all of the BS, that's what it will turn into.
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