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To: Hal Barnett who wrote (4165)	10/29/2001 12:02:01 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Hi Hal, While my 'suggestion' was written partially as tongue in cheek _but only partially_, there are towns that I am aware of where the formula that I outlined is at lease being considered as a plausible one. I haven't any specific knowledge where sewer, or drinking water utilities, or gasline deployments are being planned for residential venues at this time that have not been mentioned in the press. I queried the CEO of one of the growing number of firms that are now into sewer placement technology, however, and he's advised me that they have an FTTH design that they are currently working on. Sewer passage and other forms of "trenchless" technologies are among the few viable ways, outside of wireless, that provide alternatives to the localized backbone and neighborhood ROW dilemmas that have had a stranglehold on the last mile for competition up until now. Palo Alto has had a history of great intentions rivaled only by the number of its false starts, where the citizenry has attempted a do-it-yourself form of local area Ethernet networking. I've surmised, but could be wrong on this, that they went into this with little in the way professional thought given to the creation of a "full service" (v + v + d + utilities monitoring) environment that would be needed to combat the existing competition, and to foster usage on their own system. One school of thought says start slow by keeping it simple (offer only good, fast, cheap Internet service, and they will come), while the other school suggests that phone and video are also essential. I don't know if the CPAU was ever fully resolved on this point, perhaps you or someone else here knows the answer to that? A little over a month ago Marconi was called in by the CPAU to conduct yet another limited rollout, probably another trial of a sort, it appears. Message 16406503 Good Luck, and keep us posted. FAC