Cities Building Own Fiber Networks 301
cmburns69 writes "It's been posted before that some municipalities have plans for building their own networks (such as Utah's UTOPIA). There are many people who don't want that to happen. But despite that, CNET News has coverage of some success stories regarding 'a growing number of municipalities, state and county agencies, and local governments that are building their own networks.'"
for more throughput ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lesser of the evils (Score:5, Funny)
Fibre would be great (Score:1, Funny)
Let's go cities! YAAY!
Can't run unchecked.. (Score:5, Funny)
Today the cities will build fiber networks.. next they'll start paving the roads.. building sewers.. maintaining bridges..
Re:Dark Fiber (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Can't run unchecked.. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, it's a beautiful dream, isn't it?
KFG
Re:Lesser of the evils (Score:5, Funny)
100 on the Evil Overlord list [eviloverlord.com] is "Finally, to keep my subjects permanently locked in a mindless trance, I will provide each of them with free unlimited Internet access."
IMarv
Re:We did this (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Dark Fiber (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dark Fiber (Score:3, Funny)
That must represent an interesting maintenance problem. I heard somewhere that if your fiber doesn't get laid, your network may go down.
Re:Lesser of the evils (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This is the future... (Score:2, Funny)