more on Public Broadband Hits Political Speedbumps

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ibd com>
Date: July 16, 2005 5:22:04 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Dewayne Hendricks  
<dewayne () warpspeed com>
Cc: Randall <rvh40 () insightbb com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Public Broadband Hits Political Speedbumps



> Public Broadband Hits Speed Bumps
> Tom Spring, PC WorldFri Jul 15, 4:00 AM ET
<snip>
> "Do you really want to call City Hall when your Internet access goes
> down?" Rabe asks.

Do you really want to call The Phone Company (Edith the Operator, One  
ringy dingy is back!) or The Cable Guy when your Internet Access goes  
down? The RBOCs and CableCos are dragging their feet in deploying  
broadband. Broadband should NOT be considered anything that is above  
128kbps. Other countries are blowing by the US in REAL broadband  
deployment. The US RBOCs and  CableCos are employing more lawyers and  
lobbyists than engineers to stop broadband deployment.

If we had a rational regulatory regime, the first rule would be to  
not allow those that control Transport to control Content. I.E. its  
time for horizontal divestiture of the Telecom (including Cable)  
oligopoly.

Municipalities and/or regulated monopolies are now clearly the right  
entities to handle the PHYSICAL plant. This is mostly Conduit,  
Telephone Poles and Dark Fiber. "Men in Trucks", 10 - 15 year Bonds  
to finance. No high tech skills other than the ability to splice fiber.

The Municipalities should not be service providers. Lighting the  
fiber and delivering content is the right place for competitive,  
primarily commercial providers. These competitive providers  would  
gain access to the dark fiber or the routers operated by other  
competitive service providers who light fiber, collocated at  
Municipal Exchange Points where everyone can collocate equipment on a  
cost plus, open access basis.

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