Brent Thomson wrote:
> This is exactly right. Paul Venturella, the head honcho overseeing the > fiber-to-the-home initiative made a presentation in one of my classes > (business, not CS) in which he explained how the system would work. As > Andrew mentioned, it is indeed all about infrastructure, not service. > The city will run fiber to your house, but you'll still have to go > through a local ISP who has a contract with Provo city in order to get > online. > > (By the way, I think the UUG should be one of the entities with an ISP > operating on the network--something with _no_ tech support other than > the mailing list. That could be pretty cheap, wouldn't you think? > There would still have to be somebody that could fix DHCP, DNS, etc., > but I bet a large portion of any ISP's charges cover tech support.) > > -Brent
Hi,
I hope that Paul explained the full picture to your class. I've spoken with Mr. Venturella a few times -- the last time was at a city council meeting.
Last time that I checked, during the first 3 years of iProvo there will be ZERO competition!
VIB just signed an exclusive contract with Provo City. I believe that the 3 year period starts in September, IIRC.
If you want the details I believe they're in the council minutes from Jan. 20th or Feb. 19th -- www.provo.org/council/meetings/minutes/minutes.html
iProvo is being brought to us with tax dollars and a $40,000,000 bond(loan) payable over 20something years.
Did I say that I like iProvo?
I just think that they went about financing it the wrong way.
Anyway, no competition till September 2007 from what I understand.
Roger Brown http://provocitizens.net/
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