Roger L. Brown wrote:
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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I'm glad somebody mentioned the loan side of the issue. Whenever a government wishes to get permission to do something, they usually are looking for a loan. This would definitely be an argument on Mike's side, since anybody with a half a brain, (which apparently excludes you from civil service) knows that a large percentage of your loan goes into the banks, which are rarely local entities that pump the money back into the local economy. Nice of the politicians to pass measures that make them look good, but will haunt their successors
As for competition, why does VIB get the exclusive rights? They better have some good money helping establish this service, and they better be offering reasonable rates. Of course few homes would be interested in this service if it costs much more than $40, which is another side to this economics problem.
Despite all these negatives, I'm inclined to agree that they'll spend the money anyway, why not on me. . .?
Scott
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