[RTC List] Market Research for community broadband?

[Sean McLaughlin]

A deeper analysis of Connect Kentucky and public/private efforts to 
build community broadband.

Locals say the model is “simply a front for protecting the interests of 
incumbent telephone and cable companies.”

The real question is what to do for the North Coast!

Here's some market research -

CONNECT KENTUCKY PROVIDES UNCERTAIN MODEL
[SOURCE: Public Knowledge, AUTHOR: Art Brodsky]
[Commentary] The only telecommunications legislation that has a chance 
of passing the Congress controlled by Democrats this year is modeled on 
a group whose apparent accomplishments are open to question and whose 
origins are in Republican politics in Kentucky. That group is Connected 
Nation, which began life as Connect Kentucky. Some say Connect Kentucky 
is nothing more than a sales force and front group for AT&T paid for by 
the telecommunications industry and by state and federal governments 
that has achieved far more in publicity than it has in actual 
accomplishment. Connect helps to promote AT&T services, while lobbying 
at the state capitol for the deregulation legislation the telephone 
company wants. [Much more at the URL below -- worth the read.]
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1334


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