 jjoshuaPremium
join:2001-06-01
Scotch Plains, NJ
kudos:1 | Good for the phone company The phone company is only going to do something when it's in their best interests.
Removing old wires is extra work. There is probably a good reason for them to remove the wires. Probably so no ne else can reuse the wires to provide a competing service.
The last mile, or the last few feet, is the hardest part of deploying a new technology. If the phone company invests the money and time to install a new technology, then they are going to make sure that you have no access to the old technology. |
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| Well the whole sharing issue was put into place because the RBOC's inherited the copper network from Ma Bell. If they're putting in FTTH then that's something that they had no help from Ma Bell on. So why should they share? It's the same argument that people have accepted from the cable co's. |
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 calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | No help? How about universal rights of access and rights of way? How about free access to buildings, PUDs, and subdivisions when competitors have to pay? How about use of existing conduits, poles, and vaults? How about the benefit of a legacy monopoly customer base to guarantee use of the new fiber?
You want fair? How about the ILEC gets to rewire every other census tract in its territory, and the competitors get the customers and ROW's in the other half? Since they'd both be using "new" facilities, it wouldn't be like the telco gave anything up, right?
Sheesh, bogey. Don't try to value the existing customer base, a carryover from monopoly days, at zero unless you really want to give it away....
calvoiper
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VoIP--the death knell of remaining voice monopolies! |
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| Those are all things they're continuing to have to pay on. A good many people alive today never had phone service under Ma Bell when they bought their home.
So why put the emphasis on the ROW when talking about developing a better infrastructure? Is it a better infrastructure you want or just to see any company that spawned from Ma Bell to go out of business? |
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calvoiper
join:2003-03-31
Belvedere Tiburon, CA | I want to see fair competition without undue advantage to the companies that had a century long headstart under a government sanctioned monopoly.
Now if they can't compete in a competitive environment, whose fault is that?
(BTW, many of the things I mentioned are not things the BOCs pay for today--they were given them in the past, for free, or they have been fully paid off by monopoly revenues.)
Calvoiper
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