bucy wrote:
]
] ] If you really want the solution, it's that the US government
]
] ] should mandate that all PLANT be owned by the people. The
] ] services which run above layer 1 can be anybody. This is no
] ] different than how we manage other key infrastructure
] (roads,
] ] pipelines, spacecraft, etc). It would totally eliminate the
] ] grid lock we face with the RBOCs, re-energize competition
] and
] ] consumer choice, and you could have a FTTH network cross
] ] country in a few short years rather than waiting decades in
] ] playing cat and mouse. Alas, this will never happen.
]
] I've said this before. Have a big colo facility that the
] fiber comes back to that anyone can lease access to.

Essentially, that is what would happen. In fact, that is what happens today. The problem is that a non-cooperative interest owns the plant that you are attempting to traverse. Sure, you can maybe get it for wholesale. Maybe. At ridiculously inflated pricing. And your installation times are 3x what they provide to themselves. Plus that's probably copper, not fiber. Cuz remember, after 2005, the RBOC isn't required by law to unbundle their fiber infrastructure.

This only works if you remove control of the plant and make it publically owned. Until then, we will continue to play the same games and we will fall behind countries like Korea and even Canada in deployment of broadband services.

RE: Fiber to the People