This idea of public right-of-way on the Net is so compelling and obvious to SBC that their paid lobbyists convinced Texas legislators to make it illegal. It is now against state law for any village, town or city in Texas to participate in such a plan to provide publicly supported access regardless of what the local voters want and are willing to pay for. I've read this has happened in some other states as well.
If it's such an impossible pie-in-the-sky idea, why are the dinosaur telcos already paying legislators to kill the possibility?
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This idea of public right-of-way on the Net is so compelling and obvious to SBC that their paid lobbyists convinced Texas legislators to make it illegal. It is now against state law for any village, town or city in Texas to participate in such a plan to provide publicly supported access regardless of what the local voters want and are willing to pay for. I've read this has happened in some other states as well. If it's such an impossible pie-in-the-sky idea, why are the dinosaur telcos already paying legislators to kill the possibility?