[IP] more on WI-FI RUN BY CITIES: YEA OR NAY?
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From: Glenn Fleishman <glenn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: January 9, 2006 2:55:46 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IP] more on WI-FI RUN BY CITIES: YEA OR NAY?
Bob Frankston wrote:
Skimming the report it seems that Tom Lenard doesn’t understand the
concept of the Internet and can only see connectivity packaged as
services provided by omniscient telecom companies. He doesn't have
the concept of people defining services at the edge. The very
assumption that this is about telecom shows that he’s fifty years
behind the times.
There's also a significant problem with the PFF report, even if you
accepted
their logic and initial condition statements: they, like all anti-
municipal
report authors since early 2004, make blanket statements on the
financial
viability of municipal networks using inaccurate analysis of revenue,
capital
expense, and net return on investment from 1998 to 2001. For
instance, a number
cited in very early stages by Tacoma Power to build their Click!
Network--before
a full analysis was performed--is cited as the initial cost of the
network and
later real costs (that included replacing utility Further, all the
municipal
networks that are cited as "failures" were fiber rings or fiber/coax
hybrid
systems--no wireless.
The Free Press wrote an extensive report tracking down the source of
these bad
numbers from previous reports issued by similar organizations. I
don't object to
analysis that finds that municipal networks aren't cost effective for
citizens--depsite the fact that taxpayer dollars are hardly or not
involved in
most current RFPs--but I want to see rigorous information. There is
little rigor
in any of the reports or white papers I've read on the con side of
the issue.
<http://www.freepress.net/docs/mb_telco_lies.pdf>
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