• The following was read (a few edits have been made) by Brian Becker at the City Council Meeting on 7/19/2010: My name is Brian Becker and I own and operate Poplar Bluff Internet, dba semo.net, at 1877 N Westwood Blvd. This afternoon at the Municipal Utilities Advisory Board it was voted by the members to recommend to you this evening to end Open Access. This is all predicated on the false assumption that Open Access is costing the City money.

    Jul 19,
  • The ordinance written shortly before 7pm was read and approved and became law tonight. For the next 3 months, ISPs will pay the current rates (which were raised by City Council in January 2010) For the following 12 months, ISPs rates will increase by 43% (semo.net's rates were estimated to increase by over $8,500/month) After 15 months, MyCityCable will be the only ISP on the Cable Network Here are the financial numbers provided by Mr. Bach to the City Council and the Municipal Utilities Advisory Board showing how Mr. Bach calculated the new rates to be charged to the Open Access ISPs.

    Jul 19,
  • The following was read at the Poplar Bluff City Council meeting during Citizen Input on July 6th, 2010. ============ My name is Brian Becker, I own Poplar Bluff Internet also known as semo.net. A month ago I stood before City Council asking for action. It’s now been 49 days of being prevented by City Cable to sign up new customers and in several instances over the past month, even lose the ones I already have.

    Jul 06,
  • [Disclaimer: the following is solely the opinion and perspective of Brian Becker] On May 14th, I was sent a letter from Bill Bach, General Manager of City Cable. The letter stated that my company was exceeding the 8meg bandwidth allotment per the 2001 city ordinance. For that reason, semo.net could not sign up new customers until a new rate was negotiated. Within hours I made a reasonable and fair offer for the overage so that our company could continue doing business and simultaneously work with the City Council to update the old ordinance. My offer was ignored.

    Jun 08,

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