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Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Mon Feb 4 16:58:36 2013

Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:58:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com>
To: Scott Helms <khelms@zcorum.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMrdfRx2d_BSoeBETt+KbL8ntmNHS5h7FNoi_mY9x=ti-20uZQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Mon, 4 Feb 2013, Scott Helms wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Brandon Ross <bross@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> There are tons and tons and tons of organizations that will sell the
> operator of a network content to sell to that operator's subscribers
> directly.  Most well known is the cable coop, who only exists to do just
> that.  The problem is that what's been proposed is that the network
> operator be able to then turn around and offer those services as a whole
> sale level to another operator, on the same physical but not not layer 2,
> plant.  That's what I don't think you can get contracts inked for.

How is that different from what the aggregators that I've already pointed 
out are doing?  Why does anyone need to resell anything, anyway, what we 
are talking about are service providers connected to this muni fiber 
network being able to deliver triple play to their subs.

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