[151486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Shepherd)
Thu Mar 22 18:50:20 2012
In-Reply-To: <48045.1332454293@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:49:19 -0700
From: Greg Shepherd <gjshep@gmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: gjshep@gmail.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:11 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:40:27 -0700, Owen DeLong said:
>> Yes, I find it quite "amusing" that I am paying additional fees on all
>> of my telecommunications services to subsidize high speed PON networks
>> in rural bumf*ck while I can't get anything like it in San Jose, California.
>
> That's OK, you're all in the same boat - the subsidized users can't get it either. :)
So where are these "subsidies" going? I live in rural BFE where most
of my neighbors are still dialing in, and the local providers have no
$$ incentive to build out here.
Greg
