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	<title>Peter's Soapbox &#187; ECFiber</title>
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		<title>Bethel Signs on to EC Fiber</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/08/bethel-signs-on-to-ec-fiber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From this week&#8217;s Select Board Meeting Minutes:
With respect to the Town joining with others through the ECFiber Interlocal Contract to develop and implement a communications system, Chairman Fox stated that the Town appears to be in receipt of sufficient legal advice to confirm that the draft Interlocal Contract for formation of “ECFiber” should now be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brookfield is Now Part of ECFiber</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/08/brookfield-is-now-part-of-ecfiber/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/08/brookfield-is-now-part-of-ecfiber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, Brookfield, one of the three towns who have expressed an interest in ECFiber but not yet signed the agreement, did indeed sign on and is now a part of the initiative to bring fiber to every home and business in 21 (and counting) towns in east central Vermont.
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		<title>(Minor) Corrections to this Week&#8217;s Herald Article</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/03/minor-corrections-to-this-weeks-herald-article/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/03/minor-corrections-to-this-weeks-herald-article/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 03:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Herald of Randolph this week published a story covering my presentation to the Stockbridge Select Board on April 17th. It was good, nut there were two minor errors. First, I did not say Stockbridge has the highest number of pre-registrations, I said we have the highest rate of pre-registrations among the member towns. Also, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECFiber Pre-Registation Campaign</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/03/ecfiber-pre-registation-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/05/03/ecfiber-pre-registation-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 11:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t heard about it yet, The East-Central Vermont Community Fiber-Optic Network (ECFiber.net) is an association of 20 towns in East- Central Vermont formed to build a community-owned fiber-optic communications network for the purpose of making high-speed Internet, digital television and telephone services universally available to the approximately 23,000 homes and businesses in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECFiber/VTA Editorial in Today&#8217;s Valley News</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/29/ecfibervta-editorial-in-todays-valley-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/29/ecfibervta-editorial-in-todays-valley-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[See this editorial in today&#8217;s Valley News for a pretty good summary of the state of ECFiber with respect to the VTA.
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		<title>Tim Nulty&#8217;s Response: &#8220;My Turn&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/26/tim-nultys-response-my-turn/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/26/tim-nultys-response-my-turn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=191</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The reaction of an ECFiber delegate (a project to clone Burlington Telecom in rural Vermont) to the Free Press article was:  “The tone is negative, but the facts are actually positive for BT”.   Quite so.
The core facts are:  The  BT “Fiber-to-the-Home” project got its first financing at the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burlington Telecomm Article in the Free Press</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/26/burlington-telecomm-article-in-the-free-press/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/26/burlington-telecomm-article-in-the-free-press/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[See this article on the current state of Burlington Telecom which ran in the Burlington Free Press yesterday. I think it is written pretty fairly, from my perspective, and raises some legitimate concerns. Note that, while BT may be behind on its predictions, it is projected to break even within the next few months. Taking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECFiber Network Pre-Registrations</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/25/ecfiber-network-pre-registrations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/25/ecfiber-network-pre-registrations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Current tally, as of today:



ECFiber Town
 %Households


Stockbridge
51.00%


Barnard
47.00%


Granville
44.00%


Pomfret
41.00%


Vershire
41.00%


Sharon
38.00%


Strafford
35.00%


Tunbridge
31.00%


Thetford
30.00%


Chelsea
23.00%


Woodstock
19.00%


Hancock
19.00%


West Windsor
18.00%


Rochester
16.00%


Norwich
13.00%


Bethel *
12.00%


Reading
12.00%


Brookfield *
11.00%


Royalton
9.00%


Hartford
7.00%


Williamstown *
7.00%


Braintree
6.00%


Randolph
5.00%


Montpelier
2.00%



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		<title>EC Fiber is Alive and Well!</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/24/ec-fiber-is-alive-and-well/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/24/ec-fiber-is-alive-and-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The headline and article in Saturday’s Valley News about ECFiber (“VT Telecom Panel Snubs ECFiber”) left a seriously misleading impression that the fate of a grass roots effort depended on the Vermont Telecom Authority (VTA). In fact, it does not.
ECFiber won near unanimous community support on town meeting day. As has always been the case, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VTA versus ECFiber - Let&#8217;s Put This To Rest</title>
		<link>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/22/vta-versus-ecfiber-lets-put-this-to-rest/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2008/04/22/vta-versus-ecfiber-lets-put-this-to-rest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>peter</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that, based on the other amounts of grant funds which the VTA has awarded, the amount given to ECFiber.net is right in line with their other awards.
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