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  1. Living in Geneva... by Insightfill · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Battle Over AT&T's Fiber Rollout

    I can tell you that AT&T's position is pretty goofy. As the former SBC in the area, their fear campaign against community-based broadband was pretty brutal. They bombed the mailboxes with little flyers like here and really soured me more on the company. Now they come around and claim that we need the exact service they were shooting down last year. Sheesh. Those boxes are also pretty huge.

  2. SBC story from Illinois by ckolar · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Regional Bells Blocking Broadband Competition

    We're familiar with that type of game here in the Fox Valley area west of Chicago. We had three communities try to pull together to get municipal broadband through and it was fought tooth and nail by SBC. It is pretty pathetic that we are still waiting for complete broadband services out here given that Fermilab is in Batavia (one of the three cities). SBC resorted to scary, misleading ads and other dirty tricks and managed to keep the plan suppressed.

  3. SBC story from Illinois by ckolar · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Regional Bells Blocking Broadband Competition

    We're familiar with that type of game here in the Fox Valley area west of Chicago. We had three communities try to pull together to get municipal broadband through and it was fought tooth and nail by SBC. It is pretty pathetic that we are still waiting for complete broadband services out here given that Fermilab is in Batavia (one of the three cities). SBC resorted to scary, misleading ads and other dirty tricks and managed to keep the plan suppressed.

  4. Re:For a streaming video talk on this subject... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Verizon-Pushed WiFi Bill Becomes Law in PA

    which now has a properly formatted URL... a properly formatted url link to a talk on this subject and another link to a group of people who tried to bring municipal cooperative broadband to their communities and lost told here

  5. Re:For a streaming video talk on this subject... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Verizon-Pushed WiFi Bill Becomes Law in PA

    Better yet, a properly formatted url on this subject... here and an account of people in three local Illinois communities who tried to go up against the BigTel's and lost... told here

  6. plan killed here in Illinois by ckolar · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Verizon Seeks To Nix Fee-Based Municipal Wireless Grids

    We're familiar with that type of game here in the Fox Valley area west of Chicago. We had three communities try to pull together to get municipal broadband through and it was fought tooth and nail by SBC. It is pretty pathetic that we are still waiting for complete broadband services out here given that Fermilab is in Batavia (one of the three cities). SBC resorted to scary, misleading ads and other dirty tricks and managed to keep the plan suppressed.

  7. plan killed here in Illinois by ckolar · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Verizon Seeks To Nix Fee-Based Municipal Wireless Grids

    We're familiar with that type of game here in the Fox Valley area west of Chicago. We had three communities try to pull together to get municipal broadband through and it was fought tooth and nail by SBC. It is pretty pathetic that we are still waiting for complete broadband services out here given that Fermilab is in Batavia (one of the three cities). SBC resorted to scary, misleading ads and other dirty tricks and managed to keep the plan suppressed.

  8. A local experience by Insightfill · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Companies, Government and Community Fiber Rollouts
    Two years ago, my local community put "fiber to the home" on the ballot.

    SBC got really nasty and start bombing the postal mailboxes of all of the residents with FUD mailings about how the new initiative would cost every homeowner a fortune in new taxes. The only indication as to the source of the FUD mailings was "SBC" written in tiny six point font in the corner. There were plenty of similar mailings over the month before the referendum, and it failed (narrowly) in a non-presidential election year. Generally, these tend to be smaller turnouts with mostly older voters.

    This year, they got it back on the ballot again, and I hope that it goes through, if not for the "fiber", at least to stick it to SBC. I'm voting for it again.

    (Side note: we already have power over leased ComEd lines, but bought from nearby Wisconsin, and our electric rates are relatively low.)

  9. A local experience by Insightfill · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Companies, Government and Community Fiber Rollouts
    Two years ago, my local community put "fiber to the home" on the ballot.

    SBC got really nasty and start bombing the postal mailboxes of all of the residents with FUD mailings about how the new initiative would cost every homeowner a fortune in new taxes. The only indication as to the source of the FUD mailings was "SBC" written in tiny six point font in the corner. There were plenty of similar mailings over the month before the referendum, and it failed (narrowly) in a non-presidential election year. Generally, these tend to be smaller turnouts with mostly older voters.

    This year, they got it back on the ballot again, and I hope that it goes through, if not for the "fiber", at least to stick it to SBC. I'm voting for it again.

    (Side note: we already have power over leased ComEd lines, but bought from nearby Wisconsin, and our electric rates are relatively low.)