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Bill: OOC/RP: Acton Fibre Project

Details

Submitted by[?]: Scientian Enclave

Status[?]: passed

Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.

Voting deadline: July 4335

Description[?]:

PREAMBLE

Imagine being able to download a full-length HD movie in a matter of seconds or upload an entire 1 TB hard drive in less than 20 minutes. With FTTP (fibre to the premises) infrastructure, consumers will have access to speeds up to 1 Gbit/s with affordable prices. These speeds serve to benefit both the consumer and the content provider, as the consumer will be able to have less delays and the provider will benefit from increased service use.

Of course, by "fibre", we mean optical fibres, not the kind of "fibre" used in food. Optical fibres transmit data via light pulses. This method of transmitting data can handle far more bandwidth and long distances than conventional electrical cables.

A big hurdle with installing FTTP infrastructure is the capital costs involved. The Ataraxian Confederation offers to cover this cost completely with a $3 billion HLR investment, gathered internally from our 65 operating communes. This investment will install FTTP in Acton and also link that infrastructure with the Commune of Ataraxia.

Why are we funding this? At the Commune of Ataraxia we run a large data centre, so it is within our interests to improve communication speeds with outside consumers. While our society operates internally under the principles of council communism, from an external point of view we are a collection of workers' cooperatives that function in syndicate with each other. We produce most of our own resources, but for resources we cannot produce or just not enough of (rare minerals for example), we must trade with the outside world. This requires us to produce an income and one of the ways we try to do this is through server hosting. With an income, we are also able to invest in external projects, such as this one.

After installing FTTP in Acton and connecting it to the Commune of Ataraxia, we plan to eventually fund the installation of such infrastructure in other cities throughout Adelia. We also hope to eventually connect the Commune of Ataraxia and the 64 other communes together, so they can all utilize and pay for usage of such infrastructure. The end goal is to upgrade the entire Province of Adelia to FTTP infrastructure - all of these projects would be proposed in similar bills to this one. This project is part of the Ataraxian Benevolence Project. We hope this will help demonstrate to Adelians and Hutorians alike that them and the Ataraxian Confederation can mutually benefit from their continued co-existence and respect for Ataraxian autonomy.

LEGISLATION

This bill proposes the following:

1. The installation of FTTP (fibre to the premises) infrastructure in the City of Acton
2. Connecting the Commune of Ataraxia to the FTTP infrastructure in Acton
3. The funding of this project will be handled by the Ataraxian Confederation, which will cover the expected capital costs of $3 billion HLR
4. Actual ownership of the infrastructure will be handled by Acton (maintain public ownership, privatize, etc.)
5. Regardless of who owns the infrastructure, Acton should seek to protect consumers from price gouging practices
6. The infrastructure should be properly maintained by the owner and the Ataraxian Confederation should receive no discrimination in usage fees (we will pay for usage of the infrastructure just like everyone else)
7. The infrastructure will be built by private contractors under supervision of the government and receive some planning assistance from Ataraxian engineers

Proposals

Debate

These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:

Date03:08:50, January 14, 2018 CET
From Scientian Enclave
ToDebating the OOC/RP: Acton Fibre Project
MessageMdm. Speaker,

I am a telecoms engineer from the Commune of Ataraxia and represent the head of this project from the Ataraxian Confederation. It is to be noted that we received approval from Oliver King, Mayor of Acton, to move forward with this project. We invite all interested parties in these proceedings.

- Pete Thompsett
Organizer of the Telecoms Engineering Team of the Commune of Ataraxia
Resident of the Commune of Ataraxia

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Voting

Vote Seats
yes
     

Total Seats: 386

no

    Total Seats: 0

    abstain
      

    Total Seats: 219


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