2012/3/22 Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> > > On Mar 22, 2012, at 11:05 AM, chris wrote: > > > I'm all for VZ being able to reclaim it as long as they open their fiber > > which I don't see happening unless its by force via government. At the > end > > of the day there needs to be the ability to allow competitors in so of > > course they shouldnt be allowed to rip out the regulated part and replace > > it with a unregulated one. >
Maybe I'm missing something, but how exactly does one share fiber? Isn't it usually a closed loop between DWDM or Sonet nodes? It doesn't seem fair to force the incumbents to start handing out lambdas and timeslots to their competitors on the business side. I guess passive optical can be shared depending on the details of the network, but that would still be much different than sharing copper pairs.
