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February 28th, 2007 at 4:56 am
At last night’s Council meeting there was confusion about when to schedule the next Cable Subcommittee meeting due to SC conflicts. I became distracted briefly and did not catch when the next meeting was scheduled. Could you (or someone) please post if/when you know when the meeting will be held? It sounds like a meeting I’d like to attend if possible.
February 28th, 2007 at 7:56 am
One example you may want to keep an eye on is the total p***ing contest going on between Verizon and Dracut regarding a telephone pole that Dracut feels is in an unsafe location but Verizon refuses to move.
Its at the point where although I like the idea of competition and easing the process of getting other companies into our state to compete with Comcast.. I question it if the only benefactor is Verizon.
February 28th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Ug, Verizon is terrible here too. Half the time when they have a pole request or something at that portion of the CC meeting, no one even shows up. They never do what they promise until asked a million times.
I hate Verizon, having had more than a few run-ins with their terriblec customer service both as a residential and a commercial customer. It’s one more reason I won’t switch to Verizon wireless, and am seriously considering ridding ourselves of a land line altogether, or switching to a VOIP.
March 1st, 2007 at 11:53 am
Paul:
The City Clerk has not yet posted the date and time of the Cable/Comcast meeting on the Events Calendar.
http://www.lowellevents.info/cgi-bin/calendar.pl?calendar=city
It is going to be a long meeting with two important topics on the agenda.
March 3rd, 2007 at 5:15 pm
Folks should just keep in mind that this “cable competition” bill is really about taking control and assignment of public rights of way (our streets, waterways, etc) out of the hands of local governments and into the hands of the state. Instead of our locally represented government deciding what compensation we should receive for the use of these rights of way, the state will decide for us. What Lowell needs is very different than what Dracut needs than what Northhampton etc . . .
Franchising remains the only locally controlled means of accessing huge telecomm infrastructure. Why would we want to risk loosing money, communication bandwith, specifc consumer discounts that meet our community needs, the ability to define what type of “video services” we receive so that a company like Verizon has an easier time making a profit.
I’m not convinced consumers will get all that much of a price break, but they certainly will lose a place at the table.