[139044] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The growth of municipal broadband networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Millnert)
Fri Mar 25 15:04:49 2011
In-Reply-To: <4D8CDF79.9060404@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:04:43 -0400
From: Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com>
To: Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Paul,
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrot=
e:
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/133-us-cities-now-run-the=
ir-own-broadband-networks.ars
>
> Ars Technica has a short article up about the growth of municipal network=
s,
> but principally a nice little 'hey check out this website'
> (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap)
(snip)
> I'm curious how the feeling is on NANOG about shifting such provision
> towards municipal instead of corporations? =A0I guess a rough summary of =
the
> competing views I've heard so far are:
(snip)
With experience from Sweden, which has seen many varying incantations
of these sort of networks, I have this hopefully useful bit to share:
It's OK for tax-payer money to build layer-1 infrastructure if it
decides so, that non-tax payer money can sell services on, but fail
starts to happen the very moment they decide to go higher than that.
That's... all.
Regards,
Martin
