I agree with this, a monopoly is ok if the government regulates it properly and effectively.
I'm a fan of either: Dark fibre to every house. Fiber to every house with a soft handover to the ISP. All ran by an entity forbidden from retail. Ideally a mix of both, soft handover for no thrills ISPs (reduced labour to connect user, reduced maintenance) and dark fibre for others (reduced costs, increased control). On 5 Aug 2014 14:11, "Owen DeLong" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Eugeniu Patrascu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > OTOH, if the municipality provides only L1 concentration (dragging L1 > facilities > > back to centralized locations where access providers can connect to large > > numbers of customers), then access providers have to compete to deliver > > what consumers actually want. They can't ignore the need for newer L2 > > technologies because their competitor(s) will leap frog them and take > away > > their customers. This is what we, as consumers, want, isn't it? > > > > 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. > > As long as the price is regulated at a reasonable level and is available > on equal footing to all comers, that’s about as good as it will get whether > run by private enterprise or by the city itself. > > Owen > >
