[DC LoCo] PCWorld blog post - municipal fiber broadband in Chattanooga

[Phil Shapiro]

Hi ubuntistas, 

For those who might be interested, here's a new blog post I wrote about Chattanooga's municipal fiber broadband. 

http://tinyurl.com/6t9mv7g 

I recall hearing last week that Verizon will no longer be expanding their FIOS network, so patient DC residents and 
businesses will never see Verizon FIOS. Municipal broadband -- with or without fixed wireless -- 
might be the only way to escape the clenches of monopoly telcos in DC. 

A good question to be asking ourselves is: If Chattanooga can set up municipal broadband service, what's stopping DC from doing it? 

Phil 

In my follow-up blog posts about Chattanooga I'm hoping to cover some of the FOSS community initiatives in that town. There's some real interesting messages being posted to the Chugalug email list. http://www.chugalug.org/ 



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