"Saturday's vote authorizes Lafayette Utilities System to sell up to $125 million in bonds for a fiber to the home and business project."
How do you think bonds are paid back? Personally, I've never seen someplace lower taxes once they've been raised.
So it brings in more 'honest' persons to live in the area, and you can reduce the need for some police force, well, you still have to find a way to pay for the installer, maint people, administrators, etc, etc. At best, it's a 1:1 ratio of loosing people to gaining people workforce wise.
Now, that's just for the city workers. Let's talk about other smaller companies (50 people) that currently try to compete, or offer services that compliment someone elses existing service.
COX will no longer need as many installers, SBC won't either. What about those people going on goverment aid.
The city would have made a better move to openly give access to land that has already been set aside, for telcom providors, instead of either saying no.
The only people that make out in the end, are the people that sold the idea to them, and got the contract to install it. Everyone else looses.
What about the other smaller companies that are/were trying to compete?
Say a company like Telcove is there, trying to provide their own serice. Now, they have to help fund another competitor (through taxes).
SBC/LEC/RBOC isn't always that bad. Yes, they have expensive prices, but 90% of people don't look around at other options. I can goto SBC and get a loop and pay $1500/MILE, or I can goto another company and pay $1200/MONTH for the entire loop. I do it all the time, all day long.
Now they will have to raise their prices, and try to compete with someone (the local goverment) that can obtain the money a lot eaiser.
Quite honestly, screw SBC, there's lots of other fiber options out there already. American Fiber Systems has metro networks all over the place, and most people don't realize companies like that exists. (and yes, they OWN their own fiber)
Yeah, you can get cable TV access for $10/month, but what's it truly costing you?
Your paying increased taxes, they never hire qualified people to run it. So in a few years when no one can stand to use it, who's left paying the bill, the taxpayers are.
It's about Jobs, and when the goverments can get money cheaper than companies can, how are companies suppose to compete with that? These networks are NOT open for everyone to use, and if you do want to try and use it, what equipment are they running, and is it compatable with everything else.
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"Saturday's vote authorizes Lafayette Utilities System to sell up to $125 million in bonds for a fiber to the home and business project."
How do you think bonds are paid back? Personally, I've never seen someplace lower taxes once they've been raised.
So it brings in more 'honest' persons to live in the area, and you can reduce the need for some police force, well, you still have to find a way to pay for the installer, maint people, administrators, etc, etc. At best, it's a 1:1 ratio of loosing people to gaining people workforce wise.
Now, that's just for the city workers. Let's talk about other smaller companies (50 people) that currently try to compete, or offer services that compliment someone elses existing service.
COX will no longer need as many installers, SBC won't either. What about those people going on goverment aid.
The city would have made a better move to openly give access to land that has already been set aside, for telcom providors, instead of either saying no.
The only people that make out in the end, are the people that sold the idea to them, and got the contract to install it. Everyone else looses.
What about the other smaller companies that are/were trying to compete?
Say a company like Telcove is there, trying to provide their own serice. Now, they have to help fund another competitor (through taxes).
SBC/LEC/RBOC isn't always that bad. Yes, they have expensive prices, but 90% of people don't look around at other options. I can goto SBC and get a loop and pay $1500/MILE, or I can goto another company and pay $1200/MONTH for the entire loop. I do it all the time, all day long.
Now they will have to raise their prices, and try to compete with someone (the local goverment) that can obtain the money a lot eaiser.
Quite honestly, screw SBC, there's lots of other fiber options out there already. American Fiber Systems has metro networks all over the place, and most people don't realize companies like that exists. (and yes, they OWN their own fiber)
Yeah, you can get cable TV access for $10/month, but what's it truly costing you? Your paying increased taxes, they never hire qualified people to run it. So in a few years when no one can stand to use it, who's left paying the bill, the taxpayers are. It's about Jobs, and when the goverments can get money cheaper than companies can, how are companies suppose to compete with that? These networks are NOT open for everyone to use, and if you do want to try and use it, what equipment are they running, and is it compatable with everything else.