[121456] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Grant Funding
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Jan 19 19:02:05 2010
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <d5d0a7e71001191326k60e5d4b3m80c644d49b9f9a1c@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:01:01 -0500
To: Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred@staff.gwi.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Fletcher Kittredge wrote:
>=20
> What do you want to know? We were the first NTIA grant announced. =
$32 million project to build rural *dark* fiber networks. The model =
was to form a new company which would be carrier neutral and just build =
and maintain rural dark fiber. A carrier's carrier; structural =
separation; prices based on cost plus margin, not what the market would =
bear, open access, non-discrimination.... This model seemed to resonate =
with the Feds. The local incumbents still seem to have a hard time =
believing we would get a government subsidy and then immediately give it =
away. A model where any carrier, including them, could have access to =
dark fiber on equal terms is beyond their ken.
>=20
This is similar to what I have been doing research on. I wonder if the =
cellular coverage outside the I-95 corridor will get better as a result =
of your efforts...
I really should have gotten fed up with my local [ineffective] =
incumbents with enough time to develop a similar approach.
I do wonder if the upcoming FCC broadband work will result in a similar =
policy being adopted. "We're all just overlay networks of the fiber" is =
a nice approach.
- Jared=
