The fiber and the carrier question: a pointer, by design

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The pointer: The baseline form of this section asks after infrastructure winners — the carrier hotel and the region's own fiber build, as dot-com artifacts. In Mishawaka both halves of that question are answered in this build's Technology leg, and this article exists so that no reader mistakes the pointer for an omission. The Technology leg carries the city's own fiber whole: a network installed about 2006 to connect Mishawaka Utilities' substations and city facilities, deliberately overbuilt with excess capacity, and opened to area businesses in October 2012 under an agreement by which the city kept ownership and St. Joe Valley Metronet managed, monitored and maintained it — the county's nonprofit dark-fiber system (formed 2004, its ring and its Union Station carrier hotel South Bend's record, boundary-named in that leg and here) thus reaching Mishawaka over glass the city already owned. Mishawaka built no carrier hotel of its own, and the Technology leg's division is the finding this section adopts: the county built the system; the glass in Mishawaka's ground was the city's own, laid for its substations. Everything else — the 2012 agreement's terms, Metronet's executive director's account of the south-and-east-side expansion, the saved cost of a city connection to the Union Station carrier hotel — stands in Technology, in the article "The city's own fiber — built for the substations, opened in 2012," and is not duplicated here.

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1. Technology, this build — the article "The city's own fiber — built for the substations, opened in 2012," with its sources (Broadband Communities, 30 October 2012; Institute for Local Self-Reliance, 13 September 2013), carried at pointer size here by design.