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Re: Muni Fiber and Politics


From: Eric Brunner-Williams <brunner () nic-naa net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:33:08 -0700

On 7/23/14 5:30 AM, Scott Helms wrote:
The people involved in the bond arrangements
almost invariably see having the city the layer 3 provider as more reliable
path to getting repaid than an open system.

I assumed this was true, that bonds with the revenue stream based upon rights-of-way lease only, or row+dark-fiber, or ... were each incrementally easier to sell, having incrementally larger per-customer revenue shares.

If anyone has specific bonds, or bonding experiences they can point to I'd appreciate the pointers.

TiA,
Eric


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