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Re: Muni broadband sucks (was: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)
From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 06:50:41 +0200
On 6/2/21 18:12, William Herrin wrote:
If you were to structure muni broadband to enhance competition rather than limit it, you might get a different result. For example, if municipalities installed and leased fiber optic cables to every structure but didn't provide any services on those cables, relying instead on third parties directly billing the customer to do so, it could work out as well as having municipalities pay for roads and letting people buy their own cars and trucks to use on them.
Which is the Stokab model.Was the assumption that the city would be providing both the fibre and the Internet service? No, that would not necessarily work.
The city should provide base infrastructure, lease it to operators at the same price, and get out of the way. End of.
Mark.
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