On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Leo Bicknell wrote:
To that end, I think the US would be much better off with fiber to the home on a single distribution infrastructure. That could be owned and operated by the municipality (like the water system) or owned and operated by a corporation granted an exclusive right to service an area (think telephone, at least pre CLEC).
+1. The layout of the old copper telephone layout is basically sound, you aggregate thousands of households via X length of cable into a single place, then you let anyone who wants to, rent space/power in there to put in their equipment and rent this fiber to the end user household/enterprise. Do this with fiber to the home, and also provide rentable long haul fiber (to the next town etc) and rent out this infrastructure at decent pricepoint, you have a situation with a very low entry-cost for new players which is great for competition and in the long run, for the end customer. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se