{"id":3301,"date":"2008-07-30T14:48:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T14:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3301"},"modified":"2008-07-30T14:48:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T14:48:42","slug":"tds_telecom_sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3301","title":{"rendered":"TDS Telecom sues Monticello over city&#8217;s plan to build its own high-speed network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/west\/26082979.html?location_refer=Homepage:highlightModules:5\">Heron Marquez Estrada<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A failure to communicate between Monticello and TDS Telecom, its chief phone and cable provider, is threatening to short-circuit plans to make the city one of the most wired communities in the nation.<br \/>\nBoth Monticello and TDS Telecom are constructing multi-million dollar fiber-optic networks that will directly connect to every home, office and business in the city.<br \/>\nWhen the networks come online in the next year or so, they would be among only about 45 in the country that provide such connectivity.<br \/>\nBut Monticello &#8212; a city of about 11,000 in northern Wright County &#8212; also may be the only locale where the public and private sectors are competing so directly for paying customers.<br \/>\nThe acrimony from such direct competition has led to the filing of what may become a precedent-setting lawsuit by TDS questioning whether municipalities can use revenue bonds to create fiber-optic networks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating.   It&#8217;s not like TDS is building fiber to the home here.   We&#8217;re stuck with (and continue to pay for) nearly century old copper networks.   Much like roads, I believe that public fiber networks (open to any player) make sense, particularly when there is no evidence that the incumbent telcos plan to upgrade their infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/west\/26082979.html?location_refer=Homepage:highlightModules:5\">Heron Marquez Estrada<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A failure to communicate between Monticello and TDS Telecom, its chief phone and cable provider, is threatening to short-circuit plans to make the city one of the most wired communities in the nation.<br \/>\nBoth Monticello and TDS Telecom are constructing multi-million dollar fiber-optic networks that will directly connect to every home, office and business in the city.<br \/>\nWhen the networks come online in the next year or so, they would be among only about 45 in the country that provide such connectivity.<br \/>\nBut Monticello &#8212; a city of about 11,000 in northern Wright County &#8212; also may be the only locale where the public and private sectors are competing so directly for paying customers.<br \/>\nThe acrimony from such direct competition has led to the filing of what may become a precedent-setting lawsuit by TDS questioning whether municipalities can use revenue bonds to create fiber-optic networks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating.   It&#8217;s not like TDS is building fiber to the home here.   We&#8217;re stuck with (and continue to pay for) nearly century old copper networks.   Much like roads, I believe that public fiber networks (open to any player) make sense, particularly when there is no evidence that the incumbent telcos plan to upgrade their infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}