[173288] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jul 21 18:36:07 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <25523272.6702.1405978573481.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:31:58 -0700
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jul 21, 2014, at 14:36 , Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
>=20
>> Whoever installs fiber first and gets any significant fraction of
>> subscribers in any
>> but the densest of population centers is a competition killer, _IF_
>> you let them
>> parlay that physical infrastructure into an anti-competitive
>> environment for higher layer services.
>=20
> As I noted in a long thread last year, I think that providing =
noncompetitive
> L2 aggregation as well -- on the same type of terms -- is productive =
in
> reducing barriers to entry.
>=20
> But no sense in relitigating that here.
IIRC, we agreed to disagree at the end of that thread.
Owen
