AUSTIN

Owned by: Participating organizations.

Serves: Austin Independent Schools, City of Austin, Travis County, Austin

Community College, Lower Colorado River Authority, State General Services

Commission, University of Texas at Austin.

Funded by: Participants pay for their own fiber and share costs of construction,

operation and maintenance.

Status: Up and running for four years. Participants took ownership in

July 1998.

Etc.: Organizations cooperate in determining how to allow access for

community governments and schools.