[160067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Jan 30 21:33:36 2013
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:28:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Art Plato" <aplato@coldwater.org>
> My director believes that we would better serve our community by being
> the layer 1 or 2 provider rather than the service provider. While I
> agree in principle. The reality is, from my perspective is that the
> entities providing the services will fall back to the original
> position that prompted us to build in the first place. Provide a
> minimal service for the maximum price. There is currently no other
> provider in position in our area to provide a competitive service to
> Charter. Loosely translated, our constituents would lose. IMHO.
Yup; that point hadn't escaped me. That was why I was planning on making
sure that first wholesale provider is already signed up when I go to
make the sales pitch to the council.
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100
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