Fwd: Below cost Fiber to 300 schools and libraries in Kings County WA

[Gene Hastings <hastings@info-ren.org>]

>Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 06:26:08 -0400 (EDT)
>From: CAnet-3-NEWS@canarie.ca
>Subject: Below cost Fiber to 300 schools and libraries in Kings County WA
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>Kings County, outside of Seattle WA is getting a state of the art fiber
>network to connect over 300 schools, libraries, and government buildings.
>The network is being provided to the county at a price substantially below
>cost in exchange for access to county right of ways.
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>This reflects an increasing trend in municipalities around the world such as
>Stockholm, Canberra, Palo Alto who are able to build open access broadband
>infrastructure ahead of the rest of the world because the municipalities
>have the legislative power to negotiate deals for access to right of ways.
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>Increasingly a number of carriers are recognizing this new reality and are
>willing to build open access dark fiber networks for the community in return
>for access to right of ways.  In many cases the fiber provided to connect up
>schools, libraries, hospitals and other public sector organizations is
>provided below or at cost.
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>AT&T and TCI for example have set up a separate business unit that will
>build fiber networks for communities, particularly those smaller communities
>that cannot attract big carriers because their are no big shining glass
>buildings in their downtown core.
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