[sllug-members]: Fiber for Salt Lake and Utah Movement

[Clint Savage]

On 9/22/07, Scott K <zspecialk at gmail.com> wrote:
> If we could have a meeting Tuesday night and sign a petition to submit to
> the committee on Wednesday that would be a good start. Maybe get a couple of
> people who can't necessarily spend an an afternoon on the hill, or lack the
> compelling business case testimony to share with the committee.
>
> Technology might be our real friend here. We need to convince the committee
> that there are too many places in the state that don't have any competition
> at all in the way of broadband (because of the distance limitations of DSL).
> We also need to make the point that the UTOPIA model infrastructure levels
> the playing field for all providers (including Qwest and Comcast), while
> complete bans at the state level enforce a monopoly of primitive technology.

I suppose I'm repeating myself, but can't remember if this is the same
people or not.  There is a bunch more people on the xmission
pro-utopia and politech mailing lists.  I'm wondering if they wouldnt'
be interested in this stuff too?

http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo

Cheers,

Clint