----- "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com> wrote: > Personally, I think that enforced UNE is the right model. If you sell > higher level services, you should not be allowed to operate the physical > plant. The physical plant operating companies should sell access to the > physical plant to higher level service providers on an equal footing.
To all intents and purposes what we have in the UK. BT, the old, formally government-owned, then privatised, effective last-mile monopoly, was split up. (I believe in return for some more government cash to build infrastructure, but I could be wrong on the order of events). BT OpenReach is now responsible for wires on poles / in the ground, CO space etc, and has to sell access to these to other divisions of BT (Wholesale, Residential) in the same arms-length way they sell them to other ISPs. It doesn't always work *quite* like that, especially in respect of actually getting space and power in COs, but the framework is there... Regards, Tim.
