You always start to butt heads after awhile. The city's goal is always to provide a public service, and the goal of a private company is always to make money.

Netware Distributed Print Service [or NDPS] incorporates printers with Novell Directory Services, for manageability. We are integrating the IPP into our NDPS so that printers are not just available over IP but manageable. A system administrator could manage his printers from a hotel room.

Simply put, if the demand for additional international service existed in this area, the airlines would have recognized it and filled the demand.

Just looking at the overall idea of what they're trying to provide, it might make more sense for Minneapolis to take a more active role in this. They're going to be caught in that situation where whoever comes in will be more interested in making a profit than providing a public service.

There is an argument that says we shouldn't provide services companies can provide, but our goal is to make the city livable. We view Internet as another amenity in the city.

KPNX has removed their station from our channel lineup even though we are providing a service to the community by delivering their programming. We have always enhanced their product by providing a better picture. Now they want Cable ONE customers to pay for something that Phoenix residents can receive free over-the-air. That's simply not right.