City builds open-access broadband network with Google Fiber as its first ISP:
The West Des Moines government's announcement said that "once the City installs conduit in the public right of way, broadband providers will pay a license fee to install their fiber in the City's conduit. Google Fiber will be the first tenant in the network." A conduit-license agreement "calls for Google Fiber to cover a portion of the construction cost to build conduit... through their monthly lease payments."
"On a monthly basis, Google Fiber would pay the city $2.25 for each household that connects to the network," according to the Des Moines Register. Google Fiber would pay the city a minimum of $4.5 million over 20 years.
Construction is expected to begin this fall and be completed in about two and a half years, the city said.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday July 09 2020, @03:30PM
You don't have to. I know more of my neighbors and their lives on our block in Brooklyn than I ever knew in the small town in the West that I grew up in. In small towns and in the countryside you can keep yourself to yourself and people won't bother you at all, unless what you're doing affects them somehow (like burning brush on your property that winds up burning part of their land, or something).
But there probably won't be a decent shawarma place within walking distance.
Washington DC delenda est.