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Name For a Community-Owned Fiber Network?
CleverMonkey writes "I'm a town representative to a newly created municipal group creating a new type of telco. This group has formed to build and operate a FTTH network, and provide both triple-play services and access to other providers, to over 20 mostly rural towns in East-Central Vermont. The project is novel because of the size of the network (a cable pass down every road within 600 square miles), the low-density of the area served, and the public-ownership/private-financing model that is being used. Some of the towns included in this group currently have nothing beyond 14.4 dial-up on a good day. This project began as a grassroots effort in a couple of towns and the name they chose was ECFiber — East-Central Fiber — or sometimes the East-Central Vermont Community Network. We hope that this network will grow beyond one corner of this state, and we would like a name that is both descriptive and flexible. What would you name a community-owned, cutting-edge, G-PON fiber-optic network covering every remote corner of two-dozen contiguous towns?"
Heaven.
The Mothership
I would say CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet, but it's already taken.
How about CutCo, EdgeCom or Interslice?
How about this:
Vermont's Eastern/Rural Independently Zoned Open Network
I'm sure the name has never been used.
Never gonna give your packets up, I suppose.
What, you want it to suck mightily?
Granted, it might be the only former MicroSoft product whose name you could use without getting sued...
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Fiberoads, take me home
To the place I belong
East-Central Vermont, mountain momma
Take me home, Fiberoads
You don't really think that the incumbent telcos are going to let you survive to complete this, do you?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Pick the acronym first. Then decide what it stands for. Use a 'V', it is Vermont after all. Let's say you go with "VLAN". Vermont Local Access Network. That was easy. Or "VICAR". Vermont Internet and Commodity Access Route. Another easy one. "RAVE". Rural Access for Vermont Enlightenment. See how easy it is? Just remember: Acronym first. Meaning second.
Grassroots Open Access To Serve East-Central Vermont
I would call it IntarWeb, or Interbutts, or some other dumb slang word for the internet, and then go around and sue the pants off everyone that uses it online. This way has three advantages:
1 - you have a lot of built-in name recognition
2 - you have an extra revenue stream from suing idiots
3 - you will force said idiots to stop using at least one dumb slang term, the whole world benefits!
"Home and Office Porn Efficiently Delivered"
I hate you.
:D
Need a roomate?
How about this: "Screw You, Verizon".
(ducks)
Name it Metamunicipal: Get your fiber here.
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Toro
Why muck about? Fairly obvious extrapolation of G-PON:
Gigabit
Passive
Rural
Optical
Network
G-PRON! Or G-PORN if you will, but that is just crass.
which is totally what she said