[116980] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Aug 28 10:06:37 2009
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: jbates@brightok.net (Jack Bates)
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:05:38 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <4A97DCE8.1070405@brightok.net> from "Jack Bates" at Aug 28,
2009 08:34:32 AM
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> JC Dill wrote:
> > IMHO the biggest obstacle to defining broadband is figuring out how to
> > describe how it is used in a way that prevents an ILEC from installing
> > it so that only the ILEC can use it. If the customer doesn't have at
>
> Oh, that's easy. If the government pays for 90% of the plant cost, I'm
> sure ILECs would love to share it with everyone else. Until then, put
> your own plant in. As an added bonus, when you put your own plant in as
> a CLEC, you can just serve the profitable areas and leave the poor ILEC
> having to serve the barn 15 miles from the nearest neighbor.
Huh? Wait, don't drink anymore of that, guys!
We've *already* subsidized the telcos $200 billion for a next generation
broadband-capable plant, that was supposed to be LEC-neutral...
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html
So, we've *already* paid the plant cost, and we've gotten nothing much in
return.
... JG
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