From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 22:54:49 -0400, "Gary Britt"
 wrote:

>The small town where I have my principal residence is one of these towns
>that offers cable service.   They offer high speed internet, and within a
>month will be adding telephone VOIP service.  I don't think its all that
>hard for these communities to do these things.  The towns have always had
>the choice to grant exclusive monopoly cable deals.  Some towns instead
>chose to become the exclusive provider themselves.

Lafayette has a cable contract with Cox, who in the past 2 months started
offering triple-play in the area, as a response to the Lafayette Utilities
System fiber proposal.

Their fastest broadband offering is "up to" 5mbps.  Their system,
a mixture of fiber and coax, doesn't have the upside capacity that a pure
fiber system would offer.

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