The Commodization of Broadband

Morristown Utility in Tenessee is set to spend $18 million in making 'fiber to the home' available

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It makes sense for community utility companies to get into the cable and Internet business because they're already providing the customer service and network maintenance needed to maintain its utility infrastructure Save up to $189 on the HP ProLiant ML110 server., said Michael Bowers, principal at Icon Broadband Technologies, the engineering firm Morristown hired to do a feasibility study on the project,.

"Municipalities that have electric utilities are very much customer-service oriented in the sense that if your power goes out, they're there to repair that kind of thing," he said. "[Broadband] really becomes a utility like they do all the time."