Some sources for 'further research' ...

Article 34 – what it says:

Authorization for Light  Plant to provide telecommunications services

To determine whether the  Town will authorize the Concord Municipal Light Plant to construct, purchase or  lease, operate, manage and maintain a community cable television and  telecommunications system for municipal use or for the use of the customers of  the Light Plant pursuant to the provisions of Massachusetts General Laws and  Acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto; Chapter 164, Sections 34 and  47E.  Services to be provided may include but not be limited to television,  internet access, telephony, security, remote meter reading or other services as  may be appropriate, or take any other action relative thereto.

Dave Clark two years ago gave us a prescient book on broadband, via his Computer Science and Telecommunications Board

            http://sites.nationalacademies.org/cstb/completedprojects/cstb_042218

complete with accolades from across the spectrum for the quality and evenhandedness of the work.  Nor has Dave been standing still on the subject since the book.

There is eg a late '02 presentation by the recent Committee

            http://www.demoville.com/ctc/

The Kutztown case study, from a year and a quarter ago

            http://davidallen.org/papers/Kutztown et al.pdf

(yes there are actually two spaces in the URL).  For the last year and a quarter this pdf has been downloaded weekly, half a dozen to a dozen times a week.

We have permission from the Allentown Morning Call to post both the article and map showing 35 municipalites across the US who have built their own FTTH in the last year. Frank Caruso sent the original article, the only way we would get the map. They are on our web space here.  There is also a local resource in the Boston area steadily accumulating a fairly rigorous database in that regard, upon which we can rely.

The Suffolk ('Beacon Hill Institute') piece is downloadable as a pdf here [Comcast has obliterated noto34.info, subsequent to our successful vote against them – so we have put up our own pdf, duly received from BHI via email].

The Beacon Hill Institute seems not inclined to show the file on their site. There is a supposed link at the top of their right-side navbar – but the link is dead.

The Concord Journal Mar 4 article is at

            http://www.townonline.com/concord/news/local_regional/con_newcocable03042004.htm

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