On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Leo Bicknell wrote:
To that end, I think the US would be much better off with fiber to the
home on a single distribution infrastructure. That could be owned and
operated by the municipality (like the water system) or owned and
operated by a corporation granted an exclusive right to service an area
(think telephone, at least pre CLEC).
+1.
The layout of the old copper telephone layout is basically sound, you
aggregate thousands of households via X length of cable into a single
place, then you let anyone who wants to, rent space/power in there to put
in their equipment and rent this fiber to the end user
household/enterprise.
Do this with fiber to the home, and also provide rentable long haul fiber
(to the next town etc) and rent out this infrastructure at decent
pricepoint, you have a situation with a very low entry-cost for new
players which is great for competition and in the long run, for the end
customer.
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Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
