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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 18:05:31 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill com> Date: May 3, 2005 5:55:24 PM EDT To: David Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: Ip <ip () v2 listbox com>Subject: Re: [IP] more on INTERESTING ARGUMENTS DJF The Myth of Scarcity, or Verizon-MCI is Doomed
Dr. Farber, I thought I'd clarify my position some more after talking with Dana futher. What I was trying to get across was not that there is scarcity in the backbone side. I stand as living proof that any idiot can build one. The point was that just building a backbone is not enough. You must be able to get customers on-net and in our current environment, building new "pipes" to the end user is harder than it appears when whiteboarding, for the reasons stated earlier. The ilecs/cablecos have the pipes to the end user, and thus can and will dominate _in the current regulatory environment_. Having tried to go down the route of using telco unbundled loops to provide service inprevious jobs, it was simply not going to happen. The ilecs had absolutely no incentive to play fair, up to and including union people cutting fibers.
What I am saying is that _unless_ the last mile so to speak is freely accessible to _everyone_, all the fiber in the world is not going to help you. The issue is getting people on net, not building the net. And with the current regulatory environment, the people who build into the last mile will end up the winners. I am currently seeing this happen from the wrong side of the battle (i.e, my company is being squeezed by the very same people (ilec/cablecos)). By the same token, building into the last mile is not easy at all, as I mentioned in my original post. It needs a lot of money and effort. Just saying that there is a lot of fiber in the ground means that there is no scarcity is oversimplifying the argument a little too much. /vijay ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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