[160364] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Mon Feb 4 17:09:34 2013
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 17:09:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Helms" <khelms@zcorum.com>
> 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.
I proposed it, and I immediately scratched the idea, when I found out
that my notional ISP clients could themselves get it from such vendors to
offer at retail.
So we can stop trying to make that *particular* type of glue now. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com
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