Many Burlington residents - or at least those who know about it, are excited about the city's project to turn cable television into a municipality. Currently the area's options for enhanced television are Direct TV or cable through Adelphia. Since most apartment buildings and many condominium associations, mine included, do not allow satellite dishes, Adelphia has something of a monopoly on the cable television in this part of Vermont. And that hurts. For years Adelphia has been gouging us with ever-rising prices.

Enter Burlington Telecom. Burlington Telecom has been running fiber throughout the city for years. They already provide some high speed internet services and are planning to provide cable television and cable modems to residents as a municipality. Of course, Adelphia doesn't like this very much. Goodbye monopoly.

Why am I writing about this? I was just reading an article about Adelphia attempting to delay things. Now, I'll grant you that some progress can be made during the colder months - business side especially. But when it comes time for winter, well, this is Vermont. Not much groundwork can be made. We all know the argument is, "You can still work in the winter. You can still make progress." It's true. But it's very limited.

I hope this moves forward, and I hope it's successful. It will add jobs, and hopefully provide incentive for Adelphia to improve as well as an excellent alternative for Burlington residents. Perhaps South Burlington will pay them to expand out here, too. That'd be quite something.