[159983] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jan 29 22:06:32 2013
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <18924910.4263.1359506366725.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:01:11 -0800
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jean-Francois Mezei" <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca>
>=20
>> It is in fact important for a government (municipal, state/privince =
or
>> federal) to stay at a last mile layer 2 service with no retail
>> offering. Wholesale only.
>>=20
>> Not only is the last mile competitively neutral because it is not
>> involved in retail, but it them invites competition by allowing many
>> service providers to provide retail services over the last mile
>> network.
>=20
> This, Jean-Francois, is the assertion I hear relatively frequently.
>=20
> It rings true to me, in general, and I would go that way... but there =
is
> a sting in that tail: Can I reasonably expect that Road Runner will in =
fact
> be technically equipped and inclined to meet me to get my residents as=20=
> subscribers? Especially if they're already built HFC in much to all =
of
> my municipality?
>=20
It doesn't actually matter. You don't necessarily need to be the only =
wholesale
offering, you just need to be open to all service providers. This means =
that
if Road Runner wants to pay for their own infrastructure instead of =
using yours,
then that will increase their costs and likely make it harder for them =
to compete
with ISPs (and other services) that choose to use your infrastructure.
Owen
