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Municipal Wi-Fi Stalls, Market Surges Forward

Started by TLF · 10 months ago

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  • eee_eff

    1 year ago

    Rather than looking backward and modeling themselves after past state-run follies, cities could take a leading role in increasing competition.

    Cord:

    It's not the 90's anymore, and there is no consensus that everything that is "state-run" is a "folly." In the age of Enron, global warming, Vioxx, the working assumption is that for-profit means corrupt. I don't completely share that but it is out there.

    There are plenty of examples of well run govt initiatives, and it seems to me that the smaller scale efforts are often very well run.

    In particular, in the last post about municipal Wi-Fi I compared the se efforts to municipal libraries, and I don't think you demonstrated that this analogy is flawed in any significant way.

    You did, however, demonstrate antipathy towards public libraries.
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  • Jim Harper

    1 year ago

    I thought this was the age of Katrina, the Iraq war, and the I-35 Bridge . . . .
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  • eee_eff

    1 year ago

    Katrina and Iraq just show the necessity of having a well-run government, by those who believe government should be well run, instead of by those who want to do away with it.
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