On 1/5/20 10:45 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
On 5/Jan/20 23:10, Michael Thomas wrote:
Aren't commercial and MDU just terminating the fiber at the building and sending ethernet where it's needed?
Shane is right - some commercial buildings can make your life difficult when trying to bring in fibre. I've typically found this to be the case where during the development of the building project, deals are done behind the scene where an operator locks themselves in with the developer to be the exclusive network provider, thereby blocking others from coming in. So if you want access into that building, you have pay the exclusive operator to use their network at the building site, which can - in most cases - be too costly to make sense.
Such practices can be fixed by regulation, and the policing of such regulation.
Seems to me that should be a pretty big consideration before signing a lease. But what I was really getting at is fiber to the building, with distribution unspecified. At least here in California -- the land of a million suburbs -- it's just a matter of the will to get the job done. And unlike wireless, the tin foil hat types and nimby's probably don't have a big problem with laying fiber. If wireless operators think they can complete, by all means bring it. But I do agree with your other comment of needing some sort of governmental prodding. It's clearly not happening organically. Mike