{"id":1202,"date":"2005-03-29T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2005-03-29T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T00:01:01","slug":"florida_wifi_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"Florida WiFi: The Telco&#8217;s Play Hardball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/isen.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/florida-bid-for-hall-of-shame_27.html\">isen.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Under the [three bills pending before the Florida Legislature], if the phone or cable companies don&#8217;t offer a proposal, the cities can go ahead with their own, but only after doing a feasibility study and asking residents to vote on the project at least once ? twice if bonds would be used to finance it.<br \/>\nThat would take anywhere from two to four years, one group says.<br \/>\n&#8220;No city would look at that process and say, &#8216;Yeah! We&#8217;re going to go down that road,&#8217; &#8221; said Barry Moline, executive director of the Florida Municipal Electric Association, which represents cities that own utilities<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via isen.com Under the [three bills pending before the Florida Legislature], if the phone or cable companies don&#8217;t offer a proposal, the cities can go ahead with their own, but only after doing a feasibility study and asking residents to vote on the project at least once ? twice if bonds would be used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}