Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

[Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Helms" <khelms () zcorum com>

> There are tons and tons and tons of organizations that will sell the
> operator of a network content to sell to that operator's subscribers
> directly. Most well known is the cable coop, who only exists to do just
> that. The problem is that what's been proposed is that the network
> operator be able to then turn around and offer those services as a whole
> sale level to another operator, on the same physical but not not layer
> 2, plant. That's what I don't think you can get contracts inked for.

I proposed it, and I immediately scratched the idea, when I found out
that my notional ISP clients could themselves get it from such vendors to 
offer at retail.

So we can stop trying to make that *particular* type of glue now. :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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