[TriLUG] OT: URGENT: H.129 to be heard in Thursday's Finance Committee!

[Bill Farrow]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Chris Merrill
<chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
> Think about the big infrastructures you mentioned - roads, water, gas, electric.
> They are mature technologies whose requirements have not changed substantially
> for decades (centuries in some cases).  Put in a water line and you can safely
> assume it won't need to be upgraded for 50-100 years.

Not quite right: the roads are constantly being resurfaced, rebuilt,
and expanded. Electricity distribution has gone through many upgrades
over the years, from substation upgrades to street transformers, and
even now smart grid tech is being rolled out to the endpoints.

Does TWC have a government granted monopoly over cable as the delivery
mechanism ? Could another commercial provider move into the state and
offer cable in parallel ?

Bill