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Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike () swm pp se>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:56:10 +0100 (CET)
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Leo Bicknell wrote:
To that end, I think the US would be much better off with fiber to the home on a single distribution infrastructure. That could be owned and operated by the municipality (like the water system) or owned and operated by a corporation granted an exclusive right to service an area (think telephone, at least pre CLEC).
+1.The layout of the old copper telephone layout is basically sound, you aggregate thousands of households via X length of cable into a single place, then you let anyone who wants to, rent space/power in there to put in their equipment and rent this fiber to the end user household/enterprise.
Do this with fiber to the home, and also provide rentable long haul fiber (to the next town etc) and rent out this infrastructure at decent pricepoint, you have a situation with a very low entry-cost for new players which is great for competition and in the long run, for the end customer.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike () swm pp se
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- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks, (continued)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Jay Ashworth (Mar 27)
- RE: The growth of municipal broadband networks George Bonser (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Joly MacFie (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Richard Bennett (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Joly MacFie (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Richard Bennett (Mar 26)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Joly MacFie (Mar 26)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Joly MacFie (Mar 26)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Jeff Wheeler (Mar 25)
- Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks Jay Ashworth (Mar 26)