On Tuesday 21 April 2009 01:22:39 am Niles Collins wrote: > I always thought that the cable was being run from SA up > the coast to the middle east and then out to india.
Well, the direction doesn't really matter as the cable is bi-directional (IP traffic will flow naturally toward content). However, .za is simply one of the consortium members, and as such, a landing party. > I > guess I was wrong. I am going through that right now with > my internet connection. I just switched to Verizon Home > service and they run Fiber right to my house. It is > terminated at a box right next to my electricity and > water. They use the existing cables wiring to send the > signal around the house. I suppose you're talking about Verizon's FiOS service. > I can see their point. If I spent billions of dollars to > build a fiber network why should i be forced to sell > space on it to competitors? If tax dollars are used i can > see the argument but not when I fund it myself. Yes, but inland fibre doesn't generally follow the same commercial guidelines as submarine (although in other cases, they may seem similar). Whether fibre owners can resell their national fibre depends on regulation and/or what the fibre owner is comfortable with. With large scale fibre build-outs, like what Verizon are doing in the States and what NTT and KDDI are doing in Japan, this comes out of their own pocket; which means they can, more or less, determine how they dispose of it in commercial terms. Cheers, Mark.
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