[Hidden-tech] WiredWest fiberoptic broadband

Reva Reck reva at revareck.com
Mon Apr 12 13:35:25 EDT 2010


On the one hand, including more densely populated towns would improve 
the average connection cost per household. On the other hand, being in 
direct competition with Comcast and Verizon in towns where they serve 
the entire town makes the politics more complicated. The towns we're 
focusing on have no access to fiber, limited or no acces to DSL, and 
limited or no access to cable. If towns which already have other forms 
of broadband access available to everyone contacted WiredWest, either 
their participation could be considered or WiredWest could share 
information about how to  create this kind of entity. Other small 
municipalities have done this.

/Reva Reck/

/reva//@//revareck.com/



nestor at fuzzy-math.com wrote:
> Wow, this is great!   I did notice, however, that there are not any 
> towns on the main "corridor" that have joined in.  This seems like a 
> great alternative to Comcast, Charter, etc... hopefully towns such as 
> NoHo, Greenfield, etc would also see this as an opportunity to bring 
> in future-proof infrastructure improvements at a time when the future 
> of open and democratic communications are unsure.
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Reva Reck wrote:
>
>>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's 
>> area.
>>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
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>>
>> Those of you who live in western Mass. towns with limited or no 
>> broadband should know about an exciting new initiative to bring fiber 
>> optic cable to anyone with a landline phone or grid electricity in 
>> participating towns. WiredWest will be a municipally controlled, 
>> non-taxpayer funded company offering really fast internet, hdTV, and 
>> phone services. Over 30 towns have placed articles on their town 
>> meeting warrants to join together to create this network.
>>
>> To see if your town is involved, and to learn more about this effort, 
>> visit http://wired-west.net/
>> -- 
>> /Reva Reck/
>> /reva//@//revareck.com/
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