[olug] Google Fiber home Internet sevice RFI

[T. J. Brumfield]

My wife is pretty politically involved. We're friends with the head of
the Douglas County Repulican Party, and we've been known to rub elbows
with the Republican politicans in the state.

I would be happy to talk to politicians, but I would need to know
specific statues that need to be changed.

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com> wrote:
> 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 Anyone know the law(s) specifically that we would need to have repealed?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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