Barney Ussher and Tim McCarthy gave an overview of MICC and municipal network plan and history. Charlie Smart summarized Paul Santos' comments. RCN plans are residential-oriented, where we are looking for a corporate net. Dick Norris pointed out operations and maintenance are as important as initial installation. Light dept maintains the cable plant.
Individual departments maintain their own machines.
However, the schools have zero right now. Joe Nolan said RCN would not be interested. Also some discussion about leasing fibers of some cables. If there is a separate municipal net, the light dept could coordinate to do the work on those segments at the same time. Agreement that the Belmont Municipal Net is separate and distinct from RCN's proposed network in Belmont.