The Observation Deck

Should high speed internet access be treated as a utility provided by the city? (where they can provide the services at cost) Or should it be big telco to tell you how to get to the internets?

I have heard rumors of miles of "dark fiber"(Click Here Please) laid under Lakewood. Is this true? I there a map of sorts?

Please read the interesting links below.

City of Wilson, NC - Notice the population

Greenlight - The municipal FTTH (Fiber To The Home...Like Verizon's FIOS (not offered here)) service.

Shame on Time Warner

From the above link...

...offering symmetrical speeds up to 100Mbps -- far surpassing the best local incumbents Embarq and Time Warner Cable have to offer. Embarq and Time Warner Cable did what any carrier in a government-protected duopoly would do: they began a several year campaign to lobby state legislators to not only pass laws that would effectively cripple or ban such operations, but also prohibit this community from getting access to broadband stimulus funds.

As a side note...

Greenlight is offering 20Mbps of symmetrical (same speed upstrem as down) for $59.95. That offer far surpasses anything plan offered around here.

Would that be the same government that is so user-responsive in providing our refuse services, or the one that ran such an efficient post office before the private delivery services drove them to improve their service?