[173140] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jul 17 06:09:26 2014
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <21442.57161.506252.52567@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 03:00:25 -0700
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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> Let Comcast, TW, AT&T, Verizon, etc relinquish their monopoly
> protections and then perhaps we can see something resembling a free
> and open business climate evolve. Even that would deny that they
> already have become vast and powerful on these govt-mandated
> sinecures.
The problem with this is that so long as service providers are allowed =
to be facilities providers, there is an economic natural tendency to =
monopoly or small-N oligopoly in all but the densest of population =
centers that will result as a simple matter of external reality. It =
simply costs too damn much to put facilities in for there to be large-N =
copies of facilities serving the same area.
That is one of the reasons I'm such a huge fan of home-run SWCs[1] with =
large colos run by a facilities only provider, whether that FOP is a =
municipality, NGO, or for profit entity (or even multiples if that were =
to somehow be feasible).
Owen
[1] Serving "Wire" Center -- a hub where all of the fiber from a given =
distribution area (of radius N where N < maximum reasonable distance =
served by common transmission technologies available at the time of =
construction with costs in reason for household usage. Today, I believe =
that's about 5km, but it may be more).
