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Seattle Considering Municipal Broadband

After a botched partnership with startup Gigabit Squared, the city of Seattle is keeping its options open for future broadband efforts.

"We have to look at, No. 1, how are we reducing barriers to competition, knowing that the marketplace is hungry for more broadband?"

The city’s failure to account for its dark fiber was one of the reasons the deal with Gigabit Squared fell through. Some observers, like Robert Kangas, leader of Upping Technology for Underserved Neighbors (UPTUN), a Seattle broadband consumer advocacy group, have suggested that the city fund an engineering study and make the details of the city’s fiber assets publicly available as a way to encourage investment.

Full Story: http://www.govtech.com/network/Seattle-Considering-Municipal-Broadband.html

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