Hi Jeremy,
> On Mar 29, 2023, at 18:53, Jeremy Austin via Starlink
> <starl...@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
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> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 6:54 AM dan via LibreQoS
> <libreqos@lists.bufferbloat.net> 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.
>
> To say categorically that competition is the only solution disenfranchises
> the sparse edge where it doesn’t pay to have a *single* terrestrial
> incumbent, let alone two.
>
> Yes, we will have StarLink, and perhaps eventually some competition to it
> (Bezos), but there is no escaping the reality that competition in the last
> mile destroys value.
>
> Between StarLink densities and this utopia where both fiber and cable can
> afford to build (and maintain!) enough customers lie a giant wasteland — not
> enough customers for lines, too many for LEO. Fixed Wireless Access helps,
> but even in that context competition destroys value.
Let's be real, even a dwelling unit that can choose between LTE/5G,
DOCSIS-cable and FTTH really will be limited to a low single digit number of
ISPs, that is still an oligopoly situation, and we know that
competition/markets do not work well in such situations.
> You can have subsidy (“Broadband for All” OR consumer choice, not both.
I argue that if e.g. the same set of "hands" that builds/maintains the
access roads to the dwelling units would also deploy dark fiber concentrated in
a few large enough "exchanges", can actually offer consumer choice (by enabling
ISPs to do what they do best, offer internet access service lighting-up those
dark fibers) and broadband for all... (sooner or later, roll-out still takes a
long while...)
> At this point I would hold up an Omnibus-podcast-like sign “Compatible With
> Marxism”, or “Not Compatible With Marxism”, but I’m not sure which. \
;)
>
> $.02
> Jeremy
>
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