[RWG]

As in Colorado, Qwest and other local telephone companies maintain that it would just be too expensive to offer DSL in rural Wyoming...this article confirms that qwest is a lying rip off.

[fporretto]

Not necessarily, RWG. Qwest's accounting might have placed a very high figure on the labor involved in doing all the things the Co-Op did for itself gratis. I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case.

Remember that a business has to show a certain return on investment within a specified time frame to keep its Board of Directors and stockholders happy. A co-operative mutual-assistance venture doesn't have to do that.

All the same, this is a heartening article. I love it when people brush aside "it can't be done," and actually go out and do it!

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Francis W. Porretto
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