[133987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Franklin)
Tue Dec 21 05:44:14 2010
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:42:32 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> Personally, I think that enforced UNE is the right model. If you sell
> higher level services, you should not be allowed to operate the physical
> plant. The physical plant operating companies should sell access to the
> physical plant to higher level service providers on an equal footing.
To all intents and purposes what we have in the UK. BT, the old, formally government-owned, then privatised, effective last-mile monopoly, was split up. (I believe in return for some more government cash to build infrastructure, but I could be wrong on the order of events).
BT OpenReach is now responsible for wires on poles / in the ground, CO space etc, and has to sell access to these to other divisions of BT (Wholesale, Residential) in the same arms-length way they sell them to other ISPs. It doesn't always work *quite* like that, especially in respect of actually getting space and power in COs, but the framework is there...
Regards,
Tim.
