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Re: Muni Fiber and Politics
From: John Osmon <josmon () rigozsaurus com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 22:19:34 -0600
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 01:34:58PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Jul 21, 2014, at 11:38 , William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:The only exception I see to this would be if localities were constrained to providing point to point and point to multipoint communications infrastructure within the locality on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis. The competition that would foster on theYes... This is absolutely the right answer, but they should only be able to provide physical link, not higher layer services.
I try to point people to the City of Idaho Falls, Idaho at this point in the conversation. They supply dark fiber to commercial entities. I inherited a network built on it during an acquisition a number of years ago. The city was much more responsive than any telco provider. Pricing was well within reach of smaller providers.
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- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics, (continued)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics William Herrin (Jul 25)
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- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Larry Sheldon (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jay Ashworth (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jay Ashworth (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics John Osmon (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Gary Buhrmaster (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Owen DeLong (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Bruce H McIntosh (Jul 22)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics John Osmon (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Larry Sheldon (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Constantine A. Murenin (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Jima (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics Rich Kulawiec (Jul 21)
- Replacing Copper With Fiber, er, FiOS (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics) Jay Ashworth (Jul 21)
- Re: Replacing Copper With Fiber, er, FiOS (was Re: Muni Fiber and Politics) Mike. (Jul 21)
- Re: Muni Fiber and Politics William Herrin (Jul 21)