[134110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Dec 24 04:40:25 2010
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:39:35 -0500
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 12/23/10 12:27 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> I was poking around to see what the current received wisdom was as to
> average install cost per building for suburban municipal home-run fiber,
> and ran across this article, which discusses the topic, and itemizes
> several large such deployments that "failed" or had to be sold private.
>
> I'd be interested to see what comments nanogers have on this piece. I'm
> not well enough read to critically evaluate the guy's assertions.
>
> http://www.digitalsociety.org/2010/03/why-municipal-fiber-has-not-succeeded/
>
Always consider the source.
Didn't we just have a George Ou cite that was debunked on this list?
Subject: RE: Level 3 Communications Issues Statement Concerning Comcast's Actions
Reminder: ITIF is an ultra-conservative, anti-government outfit:
http://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2009-November/015552.html
ITIF doesn't give out information about its funding, which usually means
it's industry lobbyist funded. Apparently in this case, big cable and
probably big telco.
