[173735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Sat Aug 2 03:34:50 2014
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From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 09:34:33 +0200
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On Friday, August 01, 2014 04:44:29 PM Owen DeLong wrote:
> Even when mandated to unbundle at a reasonable cost,
> often other games are played (trouble ticket for service
> billed by lines provider resolved in a day, trouble
> ticket for service on unbundled element resolved in 14
> days, etc.).
>=20
> IMHO, experience has taught us that the lines provider
> (or as I prefer to call them, the Layer 1 infrastructure
> provider) must be prohibited from playing at the higher
> layers.
Agree.
In reality, though, we've seen Layer 1-only providers=20
becoming service providers (even when they previously=20
promised the market it would never happen), due to wanting=20
to stay "relevant".
I suppose if a Layer 1 provider were a government entity,=20
there is a higher chance they would never enter the Layer 2=20
or 3 space, but even then, there is strong lobbying in=20
politics that this could become a reality.
I've seen it happen a great deal in south east Asia,=20
Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, and now even South Africa,=20
particularly with Layer 1 providers that were government=20
entities built to enable fibre connectivity for management=20
of utility services (power, for example) and were then=20
tasked to offer Layer 1 services with the remaining fibre,=20
but currently find themselves now playing in Layer 2 and=20
above to make extra cash for the government.
It's hard...
Mark.
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