Re: last mile capacity [was Re: QOS or more bandwidth]

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

On Tue, 29 May 2001, Sean M. Doran wrote:
> The correct way of solving this was demonstrated in Stockholm
> and duplicated in a handful of Canadian cities.   In the first case,
> the City of Stockholm "nationalized" the laying down of dark fibre
> in the city, and formed an agency (http://www.stokab.se/english/) which 
> provides unlit/unrepeated/unamplified dark fibre between any pair
> of addresses in Stockholm at cost as a public utility.

On the other hand, Palo Alto California demonstrates the folly of
relying on government to lay fiber optic pipes.