[RTC List] Fwd: local hosts - Why are we held hostage?

[William Van Hefner]

Cole,

FYI, I am very familiar with iProvo, as I do consulting work for the
company that is in charge of all of their commercial sales. Patterning
anything after iProvo would be like building a new ship based upon the
original design of the Titanic. The city of Provo lost so much money on
that project that they are lucky they didn't go bankrupt. As it is, they
were forced to sell the entire system for pennies on the dollar. To add
insult to injury, the company that bought it has now defaulted on their
payments to the city. Prior to the sale, the city lost tens of millions of
dollars on the project, which was completely FUBAR from day one.

Besides which, iProvo was a completely different situation. They had
plenty of connectivity to the outside world. Their plan was to provide
last mile fiber service to local businesses and residents. If anything,
iProvo is a textbook example of how disasterously wrong things can go when
you put a bunch of non tech savvy politicians in charge of running a tech
business. The people of the city of Provo, Utah will be paying for this
horrible mistake for at least the next 20 years.


-- 
William Van Hefner - President
Vantek Communications, Inc.
e-mail: vantek at humboldtonline.com


On Mon, December 29, 2008 1:20 pm, Cole Machado wrote:
>
> Is it realistic to want a network like Provo Net a network developed via
> public/private partnership with the City of Provo, Utah.