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<title>Engadget HD - Comments for Provo, Utah sells iProvo fiber-optic network to Broadweave</title>
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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Provo, Utah sells iProvo fiber-optic network to Broadweave]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</guid><description><![CDATA[Seems expensive to me!  Lets say each home is one customer @ 90$/month for cable, tel, and inet.  Thats about 3.2M.  It'll take 12 years to recover just the purchase price and thats being optimistic assuming all 36,000 homes subscribe.  Not to mention upkeep and expansions!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kevinj]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 9th 2008 5:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Provo, Utah sells iProvo fiber-optic network to Broadweave]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</guid><description><![CDATA[Kevin, is there something preventing the new suitor from offering commercial data and voice services for higher profits?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[GhostDoggy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 10th 2008 6:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Provo, Utah sells iProvo fiber-optic network to Broadweave]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</guid><description><![CDATA[36,000(subs) X $90 X 12(months) = $38,880,000. Figures to be more like 1 year, 2 weeks & 2 days  ($38,880,000 X 1.04423868 years = $40,600,000.) But yeah still kinda high. Typical buyouts are about 50% annual gross.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ljasper79]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 11th 2008 1:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Provo, Utah sells iProvo fiber-optic network to Broadweave]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</guid><description><![CDATA[You have to remember that the real profit will come from the businesses. you can easily get 2-3k a month from a medium sized business even more from larger businesses who have large infrastructure and telephony services. Not to mention local hosting or VPN services. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tsunami]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 9th 2008 5:40PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Provo, Utah sells iProvo fiber-optic network to Broadweave]]></title><link>http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/05/09/provo-utah-sells-iprovo-fiber-optic-network-to-broadweave/</guid><description><![CDATA[iProvo was bleeding taxpayer money by the bucket for a long time and the subsidies just kept getting larger.  I'm glad they sold it.  It proves to me that government does not belong in competition with the private sector.  By their very nature, political beaucracies just aren't equipped to make business-like decisions, not to mention the lack of competition they naturally create.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Redeye]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 12th 2008 9:55AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>