{"id":571405,"date":"2010-05-20T05:29:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2010-05-20T05:29:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T09:29:16","slug":"what-if-i-don%e2%80%99t-want-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/571405","title":{"rendered":"What if I don\u2019t want fiber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fiber may be a utlity, but it\u2019s not mandaotry \u2013 not in Jackson, Minnesota. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksoncountypilot.com\/Stories\/Story.cfm?SID=26587\">Jackson County Pilot<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to make freely available a connection to every home, every business, every building in the city of Jackson,\u201d said [Jackson Mayor] Jasper, a longtime fiber proponent and the city\u2019s representative on the Southwest Minnesota Broadband Project Board of Directors. \u201cBut if you don\u2019t want this on your land, we will not put it there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now if you decide later (or the next owner decides) that you do want fiber the installation cost will be on you.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an interesting notice reflecting a viewpoint I almost forget exists. Also it makes the case for broadband adoption programs. I assume there are situations I cannot imagine where fiber may not be attractive \u2013 but for most folks I think it\u2019s just a matter of explaining what broadband can do for them and failing that, what access to fiber can do for resale values.<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/3441\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;post=3441&#038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiber may be a utlity, but it\u2019s not mandaotry \u2013 not in Jackson, Minnesota. According to the Jackson County Pilot\u2026 \u201cWe are going to make freely available a connection to every home, every business, every building in the city of Jackson,\u201d said [Jackson Mayor] Jasper, a longtime fiber proponent and the city\u2019s representative on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}