A Friday blog post distributed by the Free State Foundation tied the...
A Friday blog post distributed by the Free State Foundation tied the state of Iowa’s move to sell off its Iowa Communications Network to critiques of municipal telecom networks (http://bit.ly/YrFgMW). These networks create “the financial burden on taxpayers without providing…
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commensurate benefits,” Free State Research Assistant Sarah Leggin wrote. Iowa released a request for proposals for the sale of its 24-year-old network earlier this month (CD Feb 19 p7). “The Iowa state government acknowledges that the private sector could, and likely will, provide service more efficiently to consumers than the government system can,” the post said, cautioning against such systems in most cases: “Municipal or state governments should consider undertaking the construction and operation of a telecom network only if customers are not adequately served by the private sector.”