Google (and everyone else) has access to poles already. It is a regulated tarrifed thing in Oregon. Anybody can have things attached to utility poles for $1/month/pole-attachment, subject to space availability, which is intended to cover a share of the cost of maintaining the pole. Google has its own long-haul network already. You also have to hire "qualified" electrical contractors to install it, since the work is often in so-called "electrical space" (within 10-feet of a primary).
Title 2 is mostly about common carriage, which means the carrier can't discriminate based on content. The carriers mostly don't want regulation or competition at all. 40 Mbps is FTTN, which means they have fiber to a DSLAM in your neighborhood, which shortens up the copper loops enough to do high speed DSL2, or VDSL or whatever they call it now. <broken-record>I think the right solution is to have public ownership of last-mile fiber, and have open-access rules with low barrier to entry for providers to get your bits from there onto the internet. You get last-mile at-cost, which is a good deal in the long run, and you get open competition, which should also keep costs down and service up. The UK has something like this, with British Telecom owning the physical last-mile infrastructure, but with open-access so that you can get service very cheaply from a wide array of vendors. Forcing competitors to bulid their own separate infrastructure is stupid, because it multiplies the significant capital costs and divides the market.</broken-record> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Sova <[email protected]> wrote: >> > They are running scared. I'm interested in hearing your experiences, >> > once you've had a chance to have some. > > Agreed, that they are offering it because of Google fiber threats. They > announced the service one week after Google said they would be bringing > fiber. If the FCC reclassifies ISPs as title 2 then Google and competitors > would have access to the utility poles and potentially the long haul > infrastructure of the telcos and Comcast. It would be like when DSL first > came out and the LECs had to lease lines to competitors and there was about > 12 DSL companies you could pick for service. Anyone else notice that once > they got rid of that requirement all the DSL providers consolidated and no > choice existed anymore. Ugh, I hate US Politics... > >> Is the modem included for the CL fiber service, assuming you need an >> upgrade? Also, is it still copper from the CS box to the modem? >> >> -Yum > > No modem, they provide you with a fiber to Ethernet bridge. They supposedly > run fiber to the side of the house, mount the box and bridge there (with a > UPS too) and then use either CAT5 or the RG6 coax for cable services for the > last few feet. No cost for the device if you sign-up for I think it is 2 > years, otherwise $300. I got an email from them today saying that they can > only provide 40mbit/s service. So I need to call them and see if they are > now saying I can only get DSL. > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber _______________________________________________ dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list [email protected] http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber
