You (the OP, not Jared) might also take a look at what the UTOPIA folks have been doing in Utah. It's been a state-funded, not federal-funded, project (I *believe* -- I may be incorrect in the details; I'm not involved and it's been a while since I looked at them), but they've met with some success.
-Dave On Jan 19, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: > >> >> What do you want to know? We were the first NTIA grant announced. $32 >> million project to build rural *dark* fiber networks. The model was to >> form a new company which would be carrier neutral and just build and >> maintain rural dark fiber. A carrier's carrier; structural separation; >> prices based on cost plus margin, not what the market would bear, open >> access, non-discrimination.... This model seemed to resonate with the Feds. >> The local incumbents still seem to have a hard time believing we would >> get a government subsidy and then immediately give it away. A model where >> any carrier, including them, could have access to dark fiber on equal terms >> is beyond their ken. >> > > This is similar to what I have been doing research on. I wonder if the > cellular coverage outside the I-95 corridor will get better as a result of > your efforts... > > I really should have gotten fed up with my local [ineffective] incumbents > with enough time to develop a similar approach. > > I do wonder if the upcoming FCC broadband work will result in a similar > policy being adopted. "We're all just overlay networks of the fiber" is a > nice approach. > > - Jared >
