Re: Muni Fiber and Politics

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jul 21, 2014, at 14:36 , Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com>
>
> > Whoever installs fiber first and gets any significant fraction of
> > subscribers in any
> > but the densest of population centers is a competition killer, _IF_
> > you let them
> > parlay that physical infrastructure into an anti-competitive
> > environment for higher layer services.
>
> As I noted in a long thread last year, I think that providing noncompetitive
> L2 aggregation as well -- on the same type of terms -- is productive in
> reducing barriers to entry.
>
> But no sense in relitigating that here.

IIRC, we agreed to disagree at the end of that thread.

Owen