[KLUG Members] LinkMichigan

[Robert G. Brown]

"Paul VandenBosch" <admin@cruisenews.net> writes:
>LinkMichigan is a state sponsored program intended to promote broadband
>infrastructure improvements.  They are planning a _major_ capital
>investment in broadband, although no one has said where the money is
>coming from yet.

This is an outgrowth of a couple of laws past last year, which in essence
gives the State government several methods of funding capital improvements
to communications infrastructure; either as general obligation bonds, or
as a statewide uniform fee, paid by tellecomunications cariers on the public
right-of-way used to carry cabling.

Last February, I testified at hearings conducted by the State Sentate science 
and technology committee regarding this when it was a bill in that commitee,
and attended several other sessions as well.
							Regards,
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