<div dir="ltr"><div>Worth explaining that AT&T is the incumbent telephone company that CenturyLink is partnering with the city of Springfield to compete against other. This is an arrangement that CenturyLink lobbyists have previously tried to ban in Missouri and are still trying to ban arrangements like this in other states. </div><div><br></div><div>I think this is nonetheless a sign of hope for more choice in urban areas and I hope it works well. </div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Christopher Mitchell</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Director, Community Broadband Networks</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Institute for Local Self-Reliance</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br><a href="http://www.muninetworks.org/" target="_blank">MuniNetworks.org</a><br><div>@communitynets</div><div>612-545-5185</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 6:30 PM David Breecker [dba] <<a href="mailto:david@breeckerassociates.com">david@breeckerassociates.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">I’m curious to know if folks have any reactions to this model:<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(16,16,16);font-family:"PT Serif",Times,serif;font-size:18px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">City Utilities (CU), Springfield, Missouri’s city-owned electric utility, recently </span><a href="https://www.cityutilities.net/2019/08/13/20190813-network/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(220,42,42);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"PT Serif",Times,serif;font-size:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(220,42,42);text-decoration:none;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)" target="_blank"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px 0.125em 0px 0px;vertical-align:middle;box-sizing:inherit;display:inline-flex;height:0.875em;width:0.875em"><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u><u></u></span>announced plans</a><span style="color:rgb(16,16,16);font-family:"PT Serif",Times,serif;font-size:18px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"> to expand its fiber optic network to every home in the city and lease excess fiber—on a nonexclusive basis—to the internet service provider (ISP) CenturyLink. CenturyLink, in turn, will offer high-speed fiber broadband services citywide and pay for marketing and customer service costs. </span></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/02/13/how-a-new-model-can-expand-broadband-access-across-communities/?utm_campaign=Metropolitan%20Policy%20Program&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=83662871" target="_blank">https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2020/02/13/how-a-new-model-can-expand-broadband-access-across-communities/?utm_campaign=Metropolitan Policy Program&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=83662871</a>
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