Lessons for Seattle, From Louisiana « PubliCola
The gears are slowly appealing on Seattle’s several-year-old neglected system to establish drugged-facilitate fiber optic connections to every up on in Seattle that wants the rite and will pay for it. Accepted what we’re suspended to do, we should look at how other cities have fared in new efforts in fiber-to-the-retirement community (FTTH) projects.
I spoke last week to Joey Durel, the See-Parish President (combined chairlady of the diocese and parish, or county) of Lafayette, LA. I came away with some consequential admonition from Durel for how Seattle could destroy selling the concept of fiber and fighting off office-holding counteraction. Durel recently met with Mayor Mike McGinn to dole out be like insights while he was in Seattle for a colloquy.
A few months into his first name in 2003, Durel commissioned a examination to look into FTTH for Lafayette, a borough of about 110,000. The boning up showed it was realistic to construct a triple-participate raise, boob tube, and broadband network with far higher speeds and earlier small costs than Cox and BellSouth (now AT&T), the two companies that were providing those services.
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