[134072] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Thu Dec 23 10:54:20 2010
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:53:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20101220015826.GA75503@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org>
> After looking at many models I think Australia might be on to
> something. The model is that a quasi-government monopoly provides
> the last mile physical wire, but is unable to sell services on it.
> Basically they only provide UNE's. Then, at the switching center
> any ISP can pick up those UNE's and provide services. Competition
> to the end user, while the last mile is always a single povider
> limiting the issues above. Many cities are trying the same with
> electric service, one companie provides the transport infrastructure
> and when you select a generation provider.
That's what I've been advocating, what Verizon *really* *REALLY* doesn't
want to happen (to the point that they've been agitating -- successfully
in some cases -- for state laws to forbid it), and what I think, based on
not a lot of evidence, Google is quietly encouraging with their Big Secret
Project.
Last mile fiber *really is* a Natural Monopoly.
And yeah, that's roughly how power competition was handled as well.
Cheers,
-- jra
