On Saturday 16 December 2006 18:25, Devdas Bhagat wrote: --cut--
Agree with all of the abv. The problem seems to be that "regular" browsing and content is no longer sufficient to fuel insane profit expectations of the incumbents. Hence the attempt to hobble content and provide a container for incumbents to ride on. A close parallel to the os market. > Me? I would make access a public good, and run out fibre to lots of > places (cheap), copper to the last mile, That's precisely what BSNL has done - without the public good part - but at least their calls are a lot cheaper than the others (again due to subsidies, interconnect charges etc.). > and then lease it out to service providers. which is what they refuse (or charge exorbitantly) to do. > The closest I have seen to that model is in > Scandanavia, South Korea, Japan and New Zealand. S'pore and H.K too (in the past local calls and lines were provided almost gratis). So basically we are back to string private fibre - very high capex - or wireless los backbones. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
