Now Is the Perfect Time to Build a Fast, City-Owned Broadband Service in Seattle [telecom]

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Now Is the Perfect Time to Build a Fast, City-Owned Broadband Service by David "Goldy" Goldstein

Shortly after taking office, Mayor Ed Murray finally pulled the plug on Gigabit Seattle, the financially challenged fiber- optic-broadband partnership that was once the centerpiece of his predecessor's internet strategy. But while Gigabit's failure was certainly a disappointment, it is also an opportunity: to give a giant collective municipal finger to those monopolistic [people] at Comcast, CenturyLink, and Wave.

Now that the market has failed to address our broadband woes, Seattle is free to reconsider building a city-owned municipal system. And with Seattle City Light in the process of evaluating technologies for its coming "smart meter" rollout, the timing couldn't be more perfect.

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