[95259] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [funsec] Not so fast, broadband providers tell big users (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Mar 13 13:54:24 2007
In-Reply-To: <7.0.1.0.2.20070313125602.06b5d618@senie.com>
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@cisco.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:33:37 -0700
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 13, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Daniel Senie wrote:
> As with the deployment of telephone service a century ago, the
> ubiquitious availability of broadband service will require
> government involvement in the form of fees on some and subsidies
> for others (might be a good use for the funds Massachusetts is
> trying to extract from Verizon for property tax on telephone poles,
> I suppose). Otherwise, we'll see the broadband providers continue
> to cherry pick the communities to service, and leave others in the
> digital dustbowl.
Various rural phone companies aside, the majority of this was
accomplished in the U.S. via a regulated monopoly, and in many other
countries via a government-owned regulated monopoly. Do you believe
that's necessary and/or desirable in order to make broadband
ubiquitous? How do longer-range wireless technologies like WiMAX
potentially impact the equation?
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