[133803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Dec 17 10:36:36 2010
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:36:31 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Steve Schultze <sjs@Princeton.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <598C4A03-6932-4E1B-A518-B8F15BAE651F@Princeton.EDU>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/17/2010 2:51 AM, Steve Schultze wrote:
> Negotiating
> these terms with each municipality was the price that companies had to
> pay for monopoly access to local markets.
I've seen it apply to CLEC access into a market as well; running as a
true CLEC and not just borrowing LEC lines.
Deals can include anything, including profit sharing, free service to
the municipality, etc (and can be very bad if your negotiator is poor).
Jack
