[olug] Google Fiber home Internet sevice RFI

[Dave Rowe]

This would be big if we could get someone with enough clout to act as
a front man.  You can be sure that the telcos, ISPs will throw plenty
of lobbyist dollars at this to shut it down.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Dan Linder <dan at linder.org> wrote:
> Maybe this is where we could add some benefit to the state at large
> while attracting Googles attention.
>
> If we lobby our state and/or federal legislators to allow for this, or
> drop the existing law(s), then we'd get Googles attention AND show
> that the state as a whole is trying to make things right for true
> competition.
>
> Imagine the good press that the senators, governor, mayors, etc would
> get if they were able to claim they helped bring in this high-speed
> network their constituants.
>
> Or on the flip side, someone running for office would get a big boost
> if they were the person that was a high-profile proponent of removing
> additional govenrment regulation.
>
> Either way you spin it, it plays well with the "smaller government"
> that is very popular here in Nebraska.
>
> Anyone know the law(s) specifically that we would need to have repealed?
>
> Dan
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 16:24, James Ringler <jringler at plainspower.com> wrote:
>> Sam Tetherow wrote:
>>>
>>> There isn't any state law that I am aware of that prohibits you from
>>> laying your own infrastructure.  There are hoops that have to be jumped
>>> through to get ROW from the municipality, but part of the deregulation of
>>> telco services was for just this purpose.
>>>
>>> I know for instance that Three Rivers Telephone "coppered over" Qwest in
>>> Ainsworth.  Unite fiber in Lincoln has their own fiber loop that is outside
>>> of Windstream's network.  Time Warner's cable network is outside of
>>> Windstream in Lincoln, yet both offer voice and internet.  I also know that
>>> for a while Lincoln was trying to find another cable provider to compete
>>> against TW.  The reason that it doesn't happen very often is that it is
>>> horribly expensive to do it and if you don't have a captive audience (the
>>> only provider) it is hard to make the numbers work.
>>>
>>> Sam Tetherow
>>> Sandhills Wireless
>>
>>
>> They passed a law about 10 years ago that prohibited municipal entities from
>> becoming an ISP.    Windstream and Time Warner lobbied for the law since TW
>> was in the process of launching Road Runner.   At the time, LES had the
>> entire city laced with fiber and TW was worried that if LES could light it
>> up, TW would lose their back side.   The law never was lifted off the books.
>>  At that time we were working on fiber to the desktop in Waverly..  since
>> they were booming with industry development.   Our plans were quickly
>> shattered
>>
>> Here's a link that shows Nebraska being on the ban.
>> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/municipal-fiber-needs-more-fdr-localism-fewer-state-bans.ars
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