----- Original Message ----- > From: "Art Plato" <apl...@coldwater.org>
> My director believes that we would better serve our community by being > the layer 1 or 2 provider rather than the service provider. While I > agree in principle. The reality is, from my perspective is that the > entities providing the services will fall back to the original > position that prompted us to build in the first place. Provide a > minimal service for the maximum price. There is currently no other > provider in position in our area to provide a competitive service to > Charter. Loosely translated, our constituents would lose. IMHO. Yup; that point hadn't escaped me. That was why I was planning on making sure that first wholesale provider is already signed up when I go to make the sales pitch to the council. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274