Can a WISP like us even compete in the city of Ammon? I assume that this fiber all goes to some sort of Central Office building and any carrier that wants to come into town can then run a line into this building and sell on the FTTH plant. So in reality the only providers that can compete is whoever owns the long-haul fiber coming into this town. And selling service in the $20/month price bracket to the customer and then having to turn around and pay the city of Ammon on top of that sounds like you'd be lucky to make a couple dollars per customer at all.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 5:05 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob Genovesi wrote: > > I despise over regulation but it could create a large enough barrier > > to entry that only serious operators would enter the market and that > > might prevent race to the bottom, at least for a little while. > How do you define a serious operator and who gets to set the rules? > > I'd much rather have low barriers to entry and any downside that it > brings. Generally speaking we need more competition, not less. > > A far larger long term threat than bottom of the barrel operators is > market consolidation, due to the fact that the ISP business is very much a > volume business where the winner can just outscale smaller players. > > > > >> I'm sure spammers and DCMA violators will love it! > > > > > > How do you figure the above applies? > > > > That seems pretty obvious, DCMA violators will just keep jumping to > > the next service provider any time their current provider is forced to > > turn them off. > That assumes there is an infinite supply of ISPs to chose from, which > there clearly isn't. In other words, this is not a viable long term > strategy, and most people are smart enough to figure that out and don't go > down that road. Much easier to just use a VPN service than jumping ship > every time you get a DMCA complaint. > > Jared >
