Mike Hammett wrote:
In no way is what I said wrong. Incumbent operators (coax or copper pairs) screw things up constantly (whether technically or in the business side of things), prompting a sea of independent operators to overbuild them (or fill in where they haven't).
See below: : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incumbent_local_exchange_carrier : Various regional independents also held incumbent monopolies : in their respective regions. to know many independent operators are incumbent operators.
I don't mean non-RBOC ILECs. I mean WISPs, regional fiber operators,
I'm afraid "non-RBOC" is a synonym of "independent". Anyway, ILECs including both RBOCs and thousands of non-RBOC ones should be the regional fiber operators, as I already wrote: : Many ILECs enjoying regional monopoly should be 100+ years old: : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_telephone_company : By 1903 while the Bell system had 1,278,000 subscribers on : 1,514 main exchanges, the independents, excluding non-profit : rural cooperatives, claimed about 2 million subscribers on : 6,150 exchanges.[1] : The size ranged from small mom and pop companies run by a : husband and wife team, to large independent companies, : many of which should now be PON operators still enjoying regional : monopoly.
Bob from down the street that retired and built a fiber company to serve his small town. I mean companies with less than 10,000 customers and are younger than 20 years. There are literally thousands of them in the US and they're only getting more formidable in the face of lousy incumbents.
See above: : The size ranged from small mom and pop companies run by a : husband and wife team Thousands of Bobs from down the street retired and built telephone companies, now recognized as non-RBOC ILECs, to serve their small towns 100+ years ago. Newly coming Bobs can survive as regional fiber operators only in regions not served by ILECs as PON providers. Masataka Ohta