On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, dan via Bloat wrote:
The obvious solution is to foster competition. Anywhere you overlay cable
companies with fiber BOTH companies remain and compete against each other
and the cable company increases upload speeds. If fiber was so naturally
superior, the cable companies would be erased. I have MSP customers in
multiple markets with competing techs and it's VERY nice to be able to get
fiber and cable or terragraph and cable to a business for resilience. I
cannot do that on single product dominated markets. The 'exchange' model
above doesn't do it because of that single point of failure of the
municipal fiber.
The problem is that laying cable (or provisioning wifi access to cover the area)
is expensive, and if you try to have multiple different companies doing it, they
each need a minimum density of users to make it worth their while.
In the current monopoly approach, they are required by contract to serve less
profitable areas in order to be given the monopoly for the profitable ones, take
away that monopoly, and further dilute the user density by having multiple
companies provide service, and the result isn't good.
Even in the big cities where there is enough density, the results aren't pretty.
Go back in history and look at what was happening with phone and power lines
in places like New York City before the monopolies were setup. Moving to the
regulated monoopolies was hailed by users as a win from that chaos (including
deliberate sabatage of competitors)
I'm in a Los Angeles Suburb, and until recently, I couldn't even get fast cable
service to my home, the city owned fiber will be a huge win for me, and I can
still have my starlink dish, cell phone, or (once they cover my area) a wireless
ISP as a backup
David Lang
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