Municipal fiber projects have value, said a new white paper presented at the...
Municipal fiber projects have value, said a new white paper presented at the Fiber-to-the-Home Conference in Dallas Wednesday (http://xrl.us/bnrhoy). The paper’s author is Todd Marriott, executive director of the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency, a fiber project spanning 11 cities.…
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Marriott described historical objections to municipal involvement in the electric industry and said there are “uncanny parallels to modern objections to the need for municipal broadband infrastructure development.” Private entities aren’t always able to build the necessary infrastructure, the paper said. Government action is “essential” in expanding this “revolutionary” technology, Marriott said. People need to think in terms of data and apps rather than just the Internet, he argued.