I do have an approximately 80 line, blow by blow, response to this if anyone is interested in it. Remember that this was the meeting that no public input was allowed at, but they did, of course, allow CenturyLink's input. Here are the highlights. 1. CenturyLink was allowed to bring experts to speak, but no one else was. CenturyLink brought an entire team of lawyers, but COB reps. were there to bias CenturyLinks position just in case. 2. They city side stepped the many ethical problems with CenturyLink by simply focusing on the cable TV aspect. 3. City officials were congratulated for working closely with CenturyLink for over a year. No one mentioned that they also could have worked on a public solution during this time and that Brian Heinreich and Ted Carlson refused to share the public fiber information that I gave to them with the council right after threatening to end the meeting on behalf of PSE. They also never met with Chris Mitchell or any of the other public fiber experts available to them. 4. Pinky and Roxanne went back on the positions that they stated at the Young Democrats meeting. Roxanne even mentioned her bias as a CenturyLink customer and said she will wait "as long as necessary for their service." Guess she lied to the Young Democrats! She must also like paying 12 times the rate that people in other countries do for the same service. Oh well guys, we knew most of them would lie to us right. The young don't have money and don't have to be taken seriously after all right (j/k). That's ok, you can just elect Jean Layton instead. She's trustworthy and knows we can't wait any longer for progress. She actually supports public fiber totally, and won't lie about it like Roxanne and Pinky. CenturyLink flat out refused to answer Dan Hamill's questions about serving the northern part of Bellingham. CenturyLink can pull out of Bellingham if they don't get 20% market share and will only commit to serving most of the community if they get 30%. So they can leave us high and dry. CenturyLink is coming in with many waivers of restrictions. Meaning they won't even have the same restrictions placed on them as Comcast which are a joke in the first place. When James Erb, the city's attorney, asked the mayor and council if they'd like to hear the exceptions made for CenturyLink the mayor laughed him off stage, and so did the council. Apparently knowing about the exceptions is not important to our mayor or current council. The COB closed by saying that they had to do this, because CenturyLink could have sued them if they didn't allow them to come in. Basically, it is not a community decision and they made sure that it wasn't. Also, they are unwilling to fight for your rights against large corporations no matter what those corporations represent. Also, James says that we cannot regulate them in any meaningful way in terms of building infrastructure so customers that want real fiber service will probably have to be fortunate enough to be in areas that have most of the infrastructure already and then will have the privilege of signing a long contract and probably they will have to purchase TV services they don't want along with their CenturyLink package to get fiber. Some customers have already reported having this issue when contact CenturyLink. All of this for them to reach only 6,200 customers with varied services. This is hardly a complete or ethical solutions. Time for a new council and mayor. One more thing, CenturyLink refuses to have a local office until they get 20% penetration. So they will continue to provide some of the worst customer service in American history at the highest prices. This is what your current government has chosen to do. Please note that CenturyLink flat out refused to answer Dan Hamill's questions about service areas. The city highlighted some of the low-income options, but avoided talking about specifics, because their low-income options are a joke. According to the city we have no control over who our providers can be and who can come into our community. Time to change that! Now, for no particular reason I will now post the effective communication lengths of cabling and wireless extenders, etc. just so I don't forget. I've been asked to do this and I've been meaning to for a while. All are inexpensive and cabling lasts longer if put in some inexpensive conduit. 1/2" conduit can fit 3 cat 5/6 cables Cat 5 or 6 -- maximum run length of 90 meters or 295 feet Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 Wireless Router (or similar), available at Costco (200 feet without obstructions) I will post a response to the 7pm meeting too.