[173230] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Iannone)
Mon Jul 21 13:32:17 2014
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From: Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:29:08 -0600
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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Seems like as good at time as any for Netflix to go distributed peer to pee=
r.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> Is anyone else cynical enough to say FiOS going symmetrical is an attempt=
to
> blunt the pro-NetFlix argument on that point?
> - jra
>
>
>
> On July 21, 2014 12:46:27 PM EDT, Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> There was a muni case in my neck of the woods a couple of years ago.
>> Comcast spent an order of magnitude more than the municipality but
>> still lost.
>>
>> Anyway, follow the money. "Blackburn=E2=80=99s largest career donors ar=
e ..
>> PACs affiliated with AT&T ... ($66,750) and Comcast ... ($36,600). ...
>> Blackburn has also taken $56,000 from the National Cable &
>> Telecommunications Association."
>>
>>
>> http://www.muninetworks.org/content/media-roundup-blackburn-amendment-li=
ghts-newswires
>>
>> In other news, FIOS has gone symmetrical.
>>
>> http://newscenter.verizon.com/corporate/news-articles/2014/07-21-fios-up=
load-speed-upgrade/
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Over the last decade, 19 states have made it illegal for municipalitie=
s
>>> to own fiber networks -- encouraged largely, I am told, by Verizon and
>>> other cable companies/MSOs[1].
>>>
>>> Verizon, of course, isn't doing any new FiOS deployments, per a 2010
>>> press release[2].
>>>
>>> FCC Chair Tom Wheeler has been making noises lately that he wants the
>>> FCC
>>> to preempt the field on this topic, making such deployments legal.
>>>
>>> Congressional Republicans think that's a bad idea:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.vox.com/2014/7/20/5913363/house-republicans-and-obamas-fcc-a=
re-at-war-over-city-owned-internet
>>>
>>> [ and here's the backgrounder on the amendment:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/washington/blackburn-bill-would-b=
lock-fcc-preemption/132468
>>> ]
>>>
>>> While I generally try to avoid bringing up topics on NANOG that are
>>> political;
>>> this one seems to be directly in our wheelhouse, and unavoidably
>>> political.
>>> My apologies in advance; let's all try to be grownups, shall we?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -- jra
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fibe=
rbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
>>> [2]
>>> https://secure.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Again-Confirms-FiOS-Expa=
nsion-is-Over-118949
>>> --
>>> Jay R. Ashworth
>>> Baylink
>>> jra@baylink.com
>>> Designer The Things I Think
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>
>
> --
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