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Verizon Seeks To Nix Fee-Based Municipal Wireless Grids

Posted by timothy on from the evian-sues-local-over-city-water dept.

millermp writes "It looks like Verizon has succeeded in banning municipal WiFi networks in Pennsylvania. Since Verizon is looking to broadband service to fuel its growth, it calls municipal WiFi 'unfair competition.' This bill is following similar legislation earlier this year in Utah, Louisiana, and Florida." The bill has yet to be signed by Pennsylvania's governor, and as the story says, does not ban municipal wireless per se, but would place great restrictions on how it could be funded.

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  1. Verizon will die from competition in market place by konmaskisin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... this is PURE PROOF that it will happen very soon.

    When a company uses courts and legislation to prevent competition from community groups (think Coke suing lemonade stands) it means is all of the following:

    - the company is technologically irrelevant

    - the company is staffed by utter idiots

    - the company is wasting MASSIVE MASSIVE amounts of money

    - the company is bleeding to death by millions of small cuts in revenue

    - the company will be flushed down the toilet of history with the rest of the shit in 5-10 years or possibly even SOONER.

    I bet 3 years max and Verizon will Enron-Nortel into utter nothingness.