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  • From: Phillip Rhodes <mindcrime AT cpphacker.co.uk>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] N.C. Bill Limiting Municipal Internet
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:27:51 -0400

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Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> Its easy to be "against" but what are you "for" rather than some
> half-baked untested political ideology -- give me a *practical*
> proposoal to free us from the crappy assed service of TWC and BellSouth
> etc.

Background:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_cooperative>

Example: Electrical cooperatives in the Missouri and Illinois, who
already have access to right-of-ways, poles, etc., entering the
broadband market to serve their communities:

<http://www.cbn.coop>


So yes, broadband by voluntary cooperatives can be done.


TTYL,


Phil

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