Wouldn't it be great if there was something resembling consistent policies regarding facilities? Years ago, there was the suggestion that phone companies should be broken into 2 pieces, facilities and services. The facilities unit could sell access to the copper/fiber/cable to *any* buyer. You would have some limitations, but you would be able to freely get access to the middle/last mile.
Here in the East San Francisco Bay Area, I know of the following San Ramon CA, Bishop Ranch- Time Warner has fiber at our CURB, and offers 5 Meg business grade access for $700 per month, ut Bishop Ranch won't allow Time Warner in the MPOE to pull the Glass. The fact that ATT is a few blocks away has nothing to do with it, I am sure... :-( Danville CA, customer wants Comcast Business grade Internet access. Comcast's services stop across the street from his building. Comcast wants $10,000 to go across the street. That is the same $10,000 they have wanted for better than 10 years. Walnut Creek CA, Astound pulled fiber to a clients site and gave them 5 Meg access for $700 per month. Fiber Internet Center will do 5 meg burstable to 10 meg for $1595-1695 per month through most of Northern California, and they bring the trucks and pull the fiber. They once quoted me at $7000/ month for 100 Meg over glass. I realize that it costs some pretty big $ to get glass in the ground, but why is the pricing all over the board? If there were someone that didn't need a 1 year ROI, they could be out building out fiber, and making a lot of money, but it would take 5 - 10 years to see the big $. John Matt Liotta wrote: > I don't think this is good. The last time it was tried we got a bunch of > unsustainable business models along with increasing gamesmanship from the > ILECs. Besides, the RBOCs are looking for reasons to shutdown their wireline > operations anyway. This will only speed that up. > > I think we need smarter policy to increase competition. How about fair and > reasonable real estate access? WISPA should be all over that one. I know > every business WISP has run into an unreasonable landlord. I also sure plenty > of residential WISPs have had their share of landlord problems. > > -Matt > > On Feb 16, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Scottie Arnett wrote: > > >> < >> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/regulators-may-drop-broadband-line-sharing-bombshell.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss >> > >> >> Could be good? >> >> Scottie >> >> Wireless High Speed Broadband service from Info-Ed, Inc. as low as >> $30.00/mth. >> Check out www.info-ed.com/wireless.html for information. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
