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From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
Whoever installs fiber first and gets any significant fraction of subscribers in any but the densest of population centers is a competition killer, _IF_ you let them parlay that physical infrastructure into an anti-competitive environment for higher layer services.
As I noted in a long thread last year, I think that providing noncompetitive L2 aggregation as well -- on the same type of terms -- is productive in reducing barriers to entry. But no sense in relitigating that here. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274