On Jul 21, 2014, at 14:41 , Gary Buhrmaster <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > ..... >> Whoever installs fiber first and gets any significant fraction of >> subscribers in any >> but the densest of population centers is a competition killer, _IF_ you let >> them >> parlay that physical infrastructure into an anti-competitive environment for >> higher >> layer services. > > I take it that on principal you would have petitioned against the > proposed Google Fiber roll-out in the San Jose area and would > have spoken out against it at the public hearing on June 17th > in favor of an alternative municipal funded project if you were not > otherwise engaged (the synopsis indicates no public comments > from the floor from that meeting)? You may have missed an > opportunity to be the one to stop Google Fiber in San Jose in > preference to muni fiber, although there is never just one meeting > for such large scale projects. I am sure you will have other > chances to offer your opinion, and encourage the council to > just say no. Nope... I would strongly support it. Why? Because until we have regulation that does what I am proposing, we have ridiculous monopolies with all kinds of negative consumer impact. While Google as a new monopoly wouldn't be the ideal competitive environment, it would, at least, be better than what we have today. While I believe, on principle that we need to move forward towards what I described above, I also recognize the reality on the ground and the need not to cut off one's nose to spite one's face. Owen
