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Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors )
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall () ehsco com>
Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 02:35:47 -0600
On 4/1/2005 12:34 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
on the other hand I disagree with your example that the US is inventing everything,
Nope, didn't say that either.
Also, look at where implementation of high-speed local access is being done, it's not in the US anyway.
Also a reflection of culture. We aren't high-density as in Korea, and we don't have massive natural resource and taxation revenues to afford fiber drops into every isolated corner of a single state as in Norway, and so forth. More to the point, we're not going to move into single-room dwellings or invert our economy (both of which are suggested from time to time--"the koreans/norwegians can do it, so can we..."). Instead some fool will develop (and deploy) unproven technologies that may or may not eventually solve our problem, at great pain and expense to us all. Even more to the point, of course, we're glad that others are successfully using (and will be using) the technologies that work out in spite of our apparent foolishness in pursuing them. But really, all I'm saying here is that nationalizing and/or mandating technology may work great elsewhere (and even in some areas here) but generally speaking its not in our culture and the suggestion falls flat. I'm not bragging, I'm explaining why.
If the PTTs can sit on their access networks without regulation, there will be no competition in the access, and then the market comes to a standstill because building new access networks costs an arm and a leg, especially if right-of-way is hard to come by and you have to negotiate with every land-owner on the way.
It's in everybody's interest to reduce capitalization requirements and increase access. See voluntary tower-sharing agreements, for example. http://wethersfieldct.com/B+C/PZC_05-18-2004.html and start reading at 'tower sharing'; I'd prefer to see this made easier, certainly. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
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- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Eric A. Hall (Mar 31)
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- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Eric A. Hall (Mar 31)
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- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Mikael Abrahamsson (Mar 31)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Eric A. Hall (Apr 01)
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- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Eric A. Hall (Mar 31)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) David Barak (Mar 31)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Paul Vixie (Apr 01)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Michael . Dillon (Apr 01)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Niels Bakker (Apr 01)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Michael . Dillon (Apr 01)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Niels Bakker (Apr 01)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Niels Bakker (Apr 01)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) just me (Apr 01)
- Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors ) Owen DeLong (Apr 01)