Re: 5G roadblock: labor

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

On 1/5/20 10:45 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
> On 5/Jan/20 23:10, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
> > Aren't commercial and MDU just terminating the fiber at the building
> > and sending ethernet where it's needed?
> Shane is right - some commercial buildings can make your life difficult
> when trying to bring in fibre. I've typically found this to be the case
> where during the development of the building project, deals are done
> behind the scene where an operator locks themselves in with the
> developer to be the exclusive network provider, thereby blocking others
> from coming in. So if you want access into that building, you have pay
> the exclusive operator to use their network at the building site, which
> can - in most cases - be too costly to make sense.
>
> Such practices can be fixed by regulation, and the policing of such
> regulation.

Seems to me that should be a pretty big consideration before signing a 
lease. But what I was really getting at is fiber to the building, with 
distribution unspecified. At least here in California -- the land of a 
million suburbs -- it's just a matter of the will to get the job done. 
And unlike wireless, the tin foil hat types and nimby's probably don't 
have a big problem with laying fiber. If wireless operators think they 
can complete, by all means bring it.

But I do agree with your other comment of needing some sort of 
governmental prodding. It's clearly not happening organically.

Mike