bad news for cable modems in Lansing

[Eric Hendrickson]

Personally, I cannot believe that BWL does not already have their own fiber 
running down every street of this city! We have an incredible resource in 
the BWL, I think it is simply poor foresight on the part of the City that 
the Board has not become a more diversified entity.

Cities across the country are rapidly deploying their municipal fiber 
initiatives. After days of ponder I cannot understand why the City of 
Lansing has such disinterest in providing what could be a very modernizing 
and revitalizing public project.


Eric Hendrickson, Network Engineer
Voyager.net East Lansing, Michigan




At 11:32 AM 5/2/2000 -0400, Sean wrote:
>I wouldnt think the BWL would even consider it.
>
>The BWL and att have pole contracts together for electric and
>phone and cable services which is how BWL could be involved periphereally.
>They might also be involved in laying fiber down to some extent.
>
>I think hte best bet is getting on the cablecompany, they might be able to
>tie into a newer switch thats in the bordering area(s) without having to
>string cable to far or violate existing agreements.
>
>
>
>  On Tue, 2 May 2000, Paul Melson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 08:19:09AM -0400, Alan Garrison wrote:
> > > My understanding is that the city of Lansing is generally
> > > happy with BWL utility service.  I think that the company
> > > is capable of doing this, the question is "do they want to?"
> > > My feeling is that they wouldn't want to take this on,
> > > just because of the "newness" of the whole thing.  Consider
> > > that the BWL is over 100 years old, and for that time, they
> > > have almost exclusively dealt with electricity (most of the
> > > time), water, and steam.  Just three services, and now
> > > there is the possibility of a fourth.  This would involve
> > > a major overhaul of company internally and externally,
> > > and I don't see any major excitement in the company about
> > > adding a fourth utility.
> >
> >
> >       As a BWL customer, I would agree - I am very happy
> >       with the quality of service I receive, both in terms
> >       of cost and quality of service.  Even during that
> >       nasty ice storm back in early 1998, I had power back
> >       before most of the Consumers' customers I know.
> >
> >       However, I don't see BWL throwing their proverbial
> >       hat in the arena to compete for ISP business.  They
> >       don't have the right people (or at least their ppl
> >       don't have the right training) at the central office
> >       or on the lines to take that on.  Of course, these
> >       are the same issues that plague TCI/AT&T and Horizon,
> >       and it didn't prevent them from getting into the
> >       business...
> >
> >
> >
> > PaulM
> >
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