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Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:24:23 -0700
Ask Skype just how easy it is to do that with a dual-stacked service. Owen On Jul 21, 2014, at 10:29 , Jason Iannone <jason.iannone () gmail com> wrote:
Seems like as good at time as any for Netflix to go distributed peer to peer. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:Is anyone else cynical enough to say FiOS going symmetrical is an attempt to blunt the pro-NetFlix argument on that point? - jra On July 21, 2014 12:46:27 PM EDT, Jason Iannone <jason.iannone () gmail com> wrote:There was a muni case in my neck of the woods a couple of years ago. Comcast spent an order of magnitude more than the municipality but still lost. Anyway, follow the money. "Blackburn’s largest career donors are .. PACs affiliated with AT&T ... ($66,750) and Comcast ... ($36,600). ... Blackburn has also taken $56,000 from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association." http://www.muninetworks.org/content/media-roundup-blackburn-amendment-lights-newswires In other news, FIOS has gone symmetrical. http://newscenter.verizon.com/corporate/news-articles/2014/07-21-fios-upload-speed-upgrade/ On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:Over the last decade, 19 states have made it illegal for municipalities to own fiber networks -- encouraged largely, I am told, by Verizon and other cable companies/MSOs[1]. Verizon, of course, isn't doing any new FiOS deployments, per a 2010 press release[2]. FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has been making noises lately that he wants the FCC to preempt the field on this topic, making such deployments legal. Congressional Republicans think that's a bad idea: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/20/5913363/house-republicans-and-obamas-fcc-are-at-war-over-city-owned-internet [ and here's the backgrounder on the amendment: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/blackburn-bill-would-block-fcc-preemption/132468 ] While I generally try to avoid bringing up topics on NANOG that are political; this one seems to be directly in our wheelhouse, and unavoidably political. My apologies in advance; let's all try to be grownups, shall we? Cheers, -- jra [1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused [2] https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Again-Confirms-FiOS-Expansion-is-Over-118949 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra () baylink com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274-- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics, (continued)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics list (Jul 23)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jared Mauch (Jul 23)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Brian Artschwager (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Mark Tinka (Jul 29)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Leo Bicknell (Jul 30)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Mark Tinka (Jul 30)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Måns Nilsson (Jul 31)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jason Iannone (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics William Herrin (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jay Ashworth (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Matthew Kaufman (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Hugo Slabbert (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Andrew Gallo (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Miles Fidelman (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics William Herrin (Jul 21)