----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eugeniu Patrascu" <eu...@imacandi.net>
> In my neck of the woods, the city hall decided that no more fiber cables > running all over the poles in the city and somehow combined with some EU > regulations that communication links need to be buried, they created a > project whereby a 3rd party company would dig the whole city, put in some > tubes in which microfibres would be installed by ISPs that reach every > street number and ISP would pay per the kilometer from point A to point B > (where point A was either a PoP or ISP HQ or whatever; point B is the > customer). > > To be clear, this is single-mode dark fiber so the ISPs can run it at > whatever speeds they like between two points. > > The only drawback is that the 3rd party company has a monopoly on the > prices for the leasing of the tubes, but from my understanding this is > kept under control by regulation. This one is a bad idea cause you have lots of people pushing fiber through pipes with active fiber in them... and their incentives not to screw up other people's glass are... unclear? :-) Oh, wait: the conduit installer isn't a contractor, they're a monopoly? No, that's even worse. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274