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The "Center for Public Integrity" has collected some examples of the robocalls, direct-mail brochures and newspapers ads that are being used by telcos and lobby groups to encourage people to vote against municipal broadband initiatives in their area.
They emphasise the "government takeover of telecommunications" and "risking taxpayers money" aspects of these proposed municipal networks. I didn't see any mention of the far greater risk, which is that these networks might work out exactly as intended and therefore take revenue away from the companies who are sponsoring these "no" campaigns. But then again, the examples posted are not the complete brochures, so I can't say for certain this wasn't mentioned.
Does anyone have real life experience with municipal broadband that they can share? Should we be thanking these companies for spending their hard-earned money warning us of the dangers?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by iwoloschin on Tuesday September 02 2014, @10:33AM
Just use WDM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing [wikipedia.org]
I've seen a number of DWDM systems pushing 800GB/s over a single fiber, and that's with "old" 10G optics. 100G optics are starting to come down in price now, so if you've got the money, you can jump up to 8TB/s over a single fiber, right now, today. Sure, it'll require a rack or two full of gear, but the point is it's already happening. Baring a singularity, I highly doubt that the home user will require anything near 8TB/s in the next two decades. Of course, if there's a singularity then presumably we'd be all set with something newer and shiner anyways.