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To: Warren Gates who wrote ()	5/22/1997 3:41:00 PM
From: Sam Citron	of 12823

Harvard's Kennedy School of Government has a good web page on how municipalities can wrest control of their telecom destinies from the powers that be. ksgwww.harvard.edu " Institutional Networks. The Telecommunications Act of '96 expressly allows local authorities to require cable operators to provide Institutional Networks (I-Nets) as a part of cable franchises. I-Nets are telecommunications networks that typically connect government offices and sometimes schools and libraries in a community. They are used to provide more efficient government services, to allow easy citizen access to government records and processes, to transmit video for court hearings or monitoring traffic intersections and volume in "smart highway" systems. The I-Net provisions don't prohibit local governments from connecting to and serving private businesses or homes and thus continue to allow cities to "overbuild" or threaten to overbuild a cable system to provide competition to local franchise holders. [47 U.S.C.A. 611]." See also Seattle and Austin case studies. I'll be examining my municipality's cable contract tomorrow! SC

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