Media Minutes: October 14, 2011
Series: Media Minutes
From: Stevie Converse Candace Clement
Length: 00:05:00
A draconian state law has kept Longmont, Colo., from using its fiber optic broadband network to increase broadband competition and create business opportunities for residents. But the residents are undeterred and will try again to take the network public this November. And Mexico has quickly become one of the most dangerous places for journalists as it has failed to prosecute more than 90 percent of press-related crimes over the last decade.
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A draconian state law has kept Longmont, Colo., from using its fiber optic broadband network to increase broadband competition and create business opportunities for residents. But the residents are undeterred and will try again to take the network public this November. And Mexico has quickly become one of the most dangerous places for journalists as it has failed to prosecute more than 90 percent of press-related crimes over the last decade.
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Media Minutes
Show Date: 10-14-11
Producers: Stevie Converse, Megan Tady &
Candace Clement
TRANSCRIPT
Longmont Tries Again
Times being what they are, you’d think if a city built a fiber optic broadband network, it would use it to increase broadband competition, create business opportunities and save money. But in the case of Longmont, CO, you’d be wrong.
A city of 86,000, Longmont built its fiber broadband system in 1997, back before Comcast and Qwest provided broadband. The city hoped to bring the technology to residents and business owners by partnering with private companies.
Those hopes floundered in 2005, when Colorado passed a law backed by Qwest that created several impediments for establishing municipal broadband networks. One requirement is that plans have to be approved by a public referendum – and to make things even more difficult, cities aren’t allowed to campaign...
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