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re: Help bring a city-wide fiber internet network to Baton Rouge
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:52 am to Tigerpaw123
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:52 am to Tigerpaw123
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Oh, more tax money
Spending tax money on this isn't a bad thing. It is part of a city's infrastructure.
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Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:53 am to BRTiger2005
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The goal is: not you.
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where we can hav ethe federal government subsidize the deployment costs
Tax dollars support the federal government Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:54 am to icegator337
EATEL put in a full fiber network in Ascension and did so without tax money, why can BR not do the same?
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:55 am to Tigerpaw123
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which is code word for TAXES
Shitty excuse to never improve the city. This would make paying taxes slightly better for me.
Y'all don't understand how fricked we currently getting by Internet providers. Having a fiber network will drop internet cost.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:55 am to Tigerpaw123
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EATEL put in a full fiber network in Ascension and did so without tax money, why can BR not do the same?
comparing Ascension to BR. 
So now we get to the crux of the issue. You're not even a BR resident.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:56 am to BRTiger2005
Need a lot more info.
Additional East Baton Rouge taxes for all of the "good things" - (parks, libraries, schools, transportation, police, elderly, etc., etc. etc.) are killing me. I'm not willing to support one more.
Additional East Baton Rouge taxes for all of the "good things" - (parks, libraries, schools, transportation, police, elderly, etc., etc. etc.) are killing me. I'm not willing to support one more.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:57 am to The Pirate King
This has been great for Chatanooga. Hopefully we follow their model.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:57 am to Tigerpaw123
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Oh, more tax money
Wow youre like so conservative bro!
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:59 am to lsu2006
I'm conservative and agree with the plan. Any homeowner in BR who's had to fight both companies (ATT & Cox) tooth and nail to get good service would feel the same.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 9:59 am to Tigerpaw123
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EATEL put in a full fiber network in Ascension and did so without tax money, why can BR not do the same?
The reasons are many but I won't get into that. The difference is that a private company hasn't and therefore a responsible city leadership should take the initiative.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:00 am to BRTiger2005
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This post was edited on 4/9/19 at 12:03 am
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:00 am to The Pirate King
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I'm conservative and agree with the plan.
It was a joke. Making fun of the people that loathe any kind of tax, regardless of its obvious benefits
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:01 am to lsu2006
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Wow youre like so conservative bro!
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'If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.'
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:02 am to OweO
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I live near Baton Rouge
Then you probably have Fibre already...Even Denham has Fibre
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:02 am to Tigerpaw123
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'If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.'
Get over yourself.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:02 am to icegator337
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yes, and if it encourages tech company's to move to the area, reduces your internet and cable costs, provides a newer more reliable infrastructure then it will worth it. The tax dollars generated from the boost in tech. business in the area would help it to pay for itself.
Cities have two opinions either be early to getting fiber or really late.
Google was looking at adding it to be few years ago because the city is a good size for it. They picked Kansas City instead.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:03 am to Tigerpaw123
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EATEL put in a full fiber network in Ascension and did so without tax money, why can BR not do the same?
Great question!
The way broadband economics work out, an ISP needs to acquire roughly 1/3 of the customers in any neighborhood they run lines to in order to break-even. This means, that in a perfect universe where every neighborhood was equally distributed amongst ISPs, AT MOST, you could have 3 choices of providers.
EATEL was fortunate in that they attacked Ascension when it was largely untapped, so they become the dominate provider in that area.
Having open access lines, removes that barrier and paves the way for consumers to be able to choose between dozens of service providers.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:03 am to Dire Wolf
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Google was looking at adding it to be few years ago because the city is a good size for it. They picked Kansas City instead.
Probably because the local politicians wanted their pockets greased and wouldn't work with them.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:04 am to Tigerpaw123
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and after millions of dollars spent new technology would come in and make it obsolete....no thank you
You do realize you can make this arguement with anything....if this is what you think nothing will ever be improved.
Posted on 6/15/16 at 10:05 am to hawkster
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Additional East Baton Rouge taxes for all of the "good things" - (parks, libraries, schools, transportation, police, elderly, etc., etc. etc.) are killing me. I'm not willing to support one more.
See my previous posts. No new taxes. In fact, this could become a revenue generator for the city.
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