[79214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: potpourri (Re: Clearwire May Block VoIP Competitors )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Fri Apr 1 01:35:07 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 08:34:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <424C9582.6040309@ehsco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> Besides which, your exmple of parallel [and identical] networks shows
> that there are dumb things to be found in trying to maintain artifical
> competition in a non-competitive environment.
Yes, of course there are plenty of examples of dumb things being done, but
on the other hand I disagree with your example that the US is inventing
everything, well, unless you didn't mean to imply that you use it as well.
I attenced a Ethernet in the first mile seminar at N+I last year, and
sitting there listening to US telcos saying that ethernet might work was
just fascinating. The rest of the world has been doing this for years.
Also, look at where implementation of high-speed local access is being
done, it's not in the US anyway.
If the PTTs can sit on their access networks without regulation, there
will be no competition in the access, and then the market comes to a
standstill because building new access networks costs an arm and a leg,
especially if right-of-way is hard to come by and you have to negotiate
with every land-owner on the way.
--
Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se
