On Wed, 4 Dec 2013, Owen DeLong wrote:
Nope... I look at the consumer side pricing and the fact that cellular
providers by and large are NOT losing money. I assume that means that
the rest of the math behind the scenes must work somehow.
Cost != price.
Also, wireless providers are not delivering the same service as wireline
providers. How many gigabytes per month do you usually get for the same
money on wireline compared to wireless?
Yeah, I'm sure there are all kinds of ways that wireline could be made
cheaper, etc. However, I'm talking about comparing consumer pricing, not
behind the scenes costs as the former is relatively easy to compare on
even footing while the later is far to obfuscated by far too many
parties to ever have a rational debate.
Consumer pricing often have nothing to do with cost in a dysfunctional
market. It a functional market, cost and price are more closely related.
I said nothing about what was possible... I only comment on what is
actually happening. If you know how to achieve a functioning market in
the US, I'm all ears. In the mean time, dysfunction is all I have
available to work with.
Well, there would have to be a huge amount of changes, and most likely
only a portion of them would be implemented and then the changes would be
deemed a failure.
Make it administratively fairly easy to put fiber in the ground. Make
municipalities/utilities put in fiber along other infrastructure and make
them rent it out at pricepoints that are related to cost.
If it's possible to rent dark fiber, then you can all of a sudden get
competition instead of having a few huge companies dominate the market.
Access to possibility of renting or installing L1 infrastructure to the
block/cabinet is the key.
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