[IP] more on Public Broadband Hits Political Speedbumps
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From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger@xxxxxxx>
Date: July 16, 2005 5:22:04 PM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, Dewayne Hendricks
<dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randall <rvh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Public Broadband Hits Political Speedbumps
Public Broadband Hits Speed Bumps
Tom Spring, PC WorldFri Jul 15, 4:00 AM ET
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"Do you really want to call City Hall when your Internet access goes
down?" Rabe asks.
Do you really want to call The Phone Company (Edith the Operator, One
ringy dingy is back!) or The Cable Guy when your Internet Access goes
down? The RBOCs and CableCos are dragging their feet in deploying
broadband. Broadband should NOT be considered anything that is above
128kbps. Other countries are blowing by the US in REAL broadband
deployment. The US RBOCs and CableCos are employing more lawyers and
lobbyists than engineers to stop broadband deployment.
If we had a rational regulatory regime, the first rule would be to
not allow those that control Transport to control Content. I.E. its
time for horizontal divestiture of the Telecom (including Cable)
oligopoly.
Municipalities and/or regulated monopolies are now clearly the right
entities to handle the PHYSICAL plant. This is mostly Conduit,
Telephone Poles and Dark Fiber. "Men in Trucks", 10 - 15 year Bonds
to finance. No high tech skills other than the ability to splice fiber.
The Municipalities should not be service providers. Lighting the
fiber and delivering content is the right place for competitive,
primarily commercial providers. These competitive providers would
gain access to the dark fiber or the routers operated by other
competitive service providers who light fiber, collocated at
Municipal Exchange Points where everyone can collocate equipment on a
cost plus, open access basis.
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