<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Good article, and good example set by FC. ComCast spent > $800K to defeat the city referendum, but they lost. Worth reading the whole (brief) article. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One edge FC had for this effort (compared to Davis) is that they have a municipal electric utility — cities with muni electric can reap great benefits from the synergies from using the same fiber network for both city-wide broadband and electric distribution system monitoring and operation. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On this point, note that Valley Clean Energy (which serves Davis, Woodland and Yolo County) is now exploring options to buy out PG&E’s electric distribution system through the PG&E bankruptcy proceedings. This could vastly improve the value proposition for municipal fiber. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://valleycleanenergy.org/news/vce-is-studying-the-purchase-of-pge-assets/" class="">https://valleycleanenergy.org/news/vce-is-studying-the-purchase-of-pge-assets/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition, FC had significant cash surplus in 1970s they used to put their electric distribution wires under ground. I believe (though I’d have to fact-check this) that the underground electric system would already have the conduit space for laying fiber, so the cost to implement for FC would not entail laying new conduit. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/comcast-beware-new-city-run-broadband-offers-1gbps-for-60-a-month/" class="">https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/08/comcast-beware-new-city-run-broadband-offers-1gbps-for-60-a-month/</a> </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 30, 2019, at 2:12 PM, Robert Nickerson <<a href="mailto:omrob@omsoft.com" class="">omrob@omsoft.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-forward-container">Nice work Ft Collins!</div>
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RAN,<br class="">
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In case you missed this...<br class="">
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Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a
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Comcast's lobby failed to stop launch of Fort Collins municipal
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