Re: Infrastructure improvements.

[Jeff Griffin <jeffg@turbonet.com>]

At 02:16 PM 8/18/98 -0700, John Guyer wrote:
>Infrastructure has long been known to be the chicken and the egg problem.
>You need infrastructure to attract businesses, you need businesses to fund
>infrastructure.  How do you get one without the other?  The type of
>infrastructure that I would like you to consider is high speed data
>connections.
>
>I spent the better part of a day researching what is available in the Moscow
>area.  Either the infrastructure is very poor, or the local providers are
>sadly lacking in information.  Either way, I was not given very helpful
>information.  Pullman has Moscow beat hands down in this area (at least they
>have ISDN).  What are the plans for DSL in the area?  GTE doesn't even
>consider Moscow an area of service!? Century told me they were YEARS away
>from cable modems.  I am curious what the local elected officials are doing
>to change this?

John, the major hold up seems to be GTE and their antagonistic attitude
toward both local ISP's and individual customers.  Tony Ray at TurboNet
tried to implement IDSL, but has been thwarted by technical and policy
problems with GTE.  

Does anyone know if the new UI business incubator will have it's own T1, or
will it try to utilize the UI connections?




Jeff Griffin  jeffg@turbonet.com
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