JC Dill wrote:
IMHO the biggest obstacle to defining broadband is figuring out how to describe how it is used in a way that prevents an ILEC from installing it so that only the ILEC can use it. If the customer doesn't have at
Oh, that's easy. If the government pays for 90% of the plant cost, I'm sure ILECs would love to share it with everyone else. Until then, put your own plant in. As an added bonus, when you put your own plant in as a CLEC, you can just serve the profitable areas and leave the poor ILEC having to serve the barn 15 miles from the nearest neighbor.
Huh? Wait, don't drink anymore of that, guys! We've *already* subsidized the telcos $200 billion for a next generation broadband-capable plant, that was supposed to be LEC-neutral... http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html So, we've *already* paid the plant cost, and we've gotten nothing much in return. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.