21 Jul
2014
21 Jul
'14
6:31 p.m.
On Jul 21, 2014, at 14:36 , Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
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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.
IIRC, we agreed to disagree at the end of that thread. Owen