[RTC List] Time Warner and Embarq can't compete with city-owned ISP, trying to outlaw it

[William Van Hefner]

Hmm... They aren't using taxes to pay for it, but they ARE taking out
loans that they will have to pay back (with interest). Gee, I wonder where
they will get the money to pay back the loans and the interest?

Also, what happens in ten years when existing systems become completely
obsolete, but they are still 10 years away from paying for the original
hardware?

Who will choose what brands and technology to use? Will it be done by
completely independent, highly-competent tech people, or (more likely) a
bunch of elected or appointed officials with no significant technical
experience that are more likely to make choices based upon who is the
lowest bidder, or what product that their brother-in-law just happens to
be a sales rep for? When a private company makes bad decisions, we can
always shop elsewhere. When our elected officials make these types of
errors, they are never held personally accountable. We all end up paying
for it in the long run. I'd rather be able to just shop elsewhere than risk
being left on the hook for someone else's mistakes.


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William Van Hefner - President
Vantek Communications, Inc.
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On Thu, April 23, 2009 9:06 pm, Sunny Chancellor wrote:
>

> I saw this article earlier today as well.  Curious I went onto their
> website and they state that they are not using tax money to fund the
> endeavor,  though they ARE taking out bonds to do it.
>
> We'll see how that pans out!