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Anyone else find it kind of convenient that the town ended up paying for the upgrade to the telephone poles, which was the prerequisite for private companies to
by joncrane 5y ago
Anyone else find it kind of convenient that the town ended up paying for the upgrade to the telephone poles, which was the prerequisite for private companies to expand into the town, and then all of a sudden ran out of steam, setting up the for-profit cable company to swoop in and reap the benefits?
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist but the story dedicates so much time to the pre-planning, then all of a sudden trails off and glosses over the part where the initiative loses momentum and the private company ends up making money?
- mad_ned 5y agothe unevenness of the level of detail in the story, especially the part at the end, is my fault. I did indeed gloss over it. You have in some senses an unreliable narrator, because I was not privy to what went on with the Municipal Light Plant decisions once the Broadband committee was dissolved and so cant go into as much detail. But my best guess here is that we got renewed interest from the cable companies once the poles were done (the poles had to be done, no matter what approach we took), and then when unrelated issues with the chosen build contractor came up, the Municipal Light Plant decided to go the private route. The makeup of that body was different that the Broadband committee, and maybe prioritized the cost/benefit of going the municipal route differently than us.
- mistrial9 5y agoI was told that in politics "never write what you can just say, and never say when you can just nod" .. in other words, many deals are certainly and purposefully not what they appear to be from written records. Its like a "first week on the job intro" fact, among political people it seems.