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The Straight Dope on Broadband in Minnesota

Submitted by christopher on Tue, 03/16/2010

I finally got an opinion piece published in the Star Tribune - In Minnesota, a de facto limit on broadband: Service across the state would be better if there were public competition.

All thoughts and comments appreciated.

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Nice piece

Submitted by daddYman on Tue, 03/16/2010.

It strikes me that these two paragraphs are reversed, or at least need to be restructured.

It takes a 65 percent supermajority in a referendum for a community to operate its own network.

Minnesota has one of the oldest obstacles to community networks. As a result of a law passed in 1915, a community must achieve a 65 percent supermajority on a referendum to operate a "telephone exchange." In the modern age, virtually all fiber-optic networks offer "triple-play" services (telephone, broadband and television) to generate the revenues needed to pay the debt of building the network.

Indeed - editing

Submitted by christopher on Tue, 03/16/2010.

Thanks - I agree with your comment, which is why I never would have written it that way. You can thank the editors of the Strib for incoherence. I'll soon post my original copy at MuniNetworks.org.

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