[134138] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber Last Mile - a contrary opinion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (todd glassey)
Sun Dec 26 17:24:15 2010
Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2010 14:23:00 -0800
From: todd glassey <tglassey@earthlink.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D146A57.9040305@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/24/2010 1:39 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
> 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
http://www.itif.org/content/about-us
They are a wonk tank in DC. They have totally transparent funding and if
you want to see it check their SEC and public filings.
Todd
>
> 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.
>
>
