[83254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: fcc ruling on dsl providers' access to infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Aug 8 22:30:10 2005
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 22:29:39 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20050808022019.GT8847@overlord.e-gerbil.net>; from Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net> on Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:20:19PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:20:19PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> Clearly this is a special situation where there is a natural monopoly
> given to whomever runs the wires. Maybe what we need is a certain class of
> company who will be responsible for running and maintaining the public
> data infrastructures. They could have lots of government regulations to
> ensure that they are charging a "fair" price while still being guaranteed
> a profit, and they could provide the last mile service for all those ISPs
> out there who are the ones that can actually compete and innovate. We
> could call them telcos, and... oh wait, nevermind.
I believe you've mispronounced:
municipalities.
Oh, wait: Congress wants to outlaw *that*, too.
Cheers,
-- jr 'Second American Revolution?' a
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