In July, our coalition was invited by Mayor Narkewicz to help refine a RFP (Request for Proposal) to study the viability of a municipal network for the city. This was shortly after the City Council approved funding for this first study, which is to survey the community.
We traded a few emails with Antonio Pagan, Chief Information Officer for Northampton since then, and provided him with some research of RFPs written by other cities. Antonio thanked us for what we sent him.
However, we haven’t heard back from him in several months. We hope he is busy working on the RFP and that no news is good news. Fingers crossed. We’re looking forward to the process moving forward quickly and hope it starts soon.
Happy to know about this…
Hopefully the overwhelming support for the municipal light plant proposal next door in Easthampton will spur some action up here in Paradise City. If they have the will and ability to move forward on this issue, why can’t their richer, larger neighbor to the north do it too?
I don’t think there is much worry that Northampton residents will not want a MLP. The idea is wildly popular with pretty much everyone we have spoken to. A MLP is simply a vehicle that could be used to help build a network.
I desperately hope for the MLP and components to arise. The city-sanctioned criminal enterprise of Comcast has already tortured me with the “professional installation fees” (to repair the vandalism of their own employees’ cutting their own property (wires) INSIDE their own property (building junctions). Refusal to close account(s) when moving. “Forgetting” to transfer positive balance to new account after moving (and charging late fees for the “new charges” of <0.00 on the "new" account (because they REFUSE to actually transfer an account and insist on a close/open new account+ false fees process)), which cannot be addressed without meaningful access to the "justice"/legal system. I would even go back to dialup on a 46k baud rather than return to the anecdotal paedophile priest that is Crapcast, and be forced to suffer continued molestation by the "perfectly legal" (against peasant citizens) "best practices" that make Cambridge analytica seem benign by comparison.
I desperately hope for the MLP and components to arise. The city-sanctioned criminal enterprise of Comcast has already tortured me with the “professional installation fees” (to repair the vandalism of their own employees’ cutting their own property (wires) INSIDE their own property (building junctions). Refusal to close account(s) when moving. “Forgetting” to transfer positive balance to new account after moving (and charging late fees for the “new charges” of <0.00 on the "new" account (because they REFUSE to actually transfer an account and insist on a close/open new account+ false fees process)), which cannot be addressed without meaningful access to the "justice"/legal system. I would even go back to dialup on a 46k baud rather than return to the anecdotal paedophile priest that is Crapcast, and be forced to suffer continued molestation by the "perfectly legal" (against peasant citizens) "best practices" that make Cambridge analytica seem benign by comparison.