| What wil Happen Net-Neutrality Up Innovation Down, The telecoms will find another place to put their money other than back bone improvements and Google will just have to wallow in the traffic congestion they cause.
National Franchising down, Video over ip Down and FTTH Down. This could be a FIOS killer. The selling point was to be how one can get multiple services through a single fiber. |
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| I don't believe the Dems are against a national/statewide franchise agreement "but" I do think they were against a nationwide/statewide franchise agreement that didn't have at least some built-out requirements. Built-out requirements in my view is to require a new company offering TV service to at a specific point to wire each and every customer that is currently wired with either a) their own service and/or b) the cable/telco currently serving the area. So to put this simply I'll give two examples below.
Say AT&T serves just one entire county of a state and they want to rollout FTTP internet, phone and TV service. Well in this case a requirement of getting the nationwide/statewide franchise agreement would be that within the next X amount of years they must wire all of their current wired homes with this new fiber.
Now lets look at the much more likely situation below and I'll give a real word real company example too.
In the Tampa Bay Area of Florida Verizon is wiring customers up with fiber for their FIOS service. Well for Verizon to get a nationwide/statewide franchise agreement they would need to commit to doing the following two things below.
1. They must wire every home with fiber that currently has a copper drop. This means if you can order Pots phone service (the customer doesn't need to have Pots service just the ability to order it) they must wire that customer with fiber within XX amount of years.
2. They must also provide fiber to all customers within all of the Tampa Bay Area that also are wired by the cable company which in this case its called Bright House Networks. If a customer is wired with Bright House Networks but isn't wired for Pots by Verizon than Verizon would still be required to run fiber to this customers home either way. In a home that isn't wired with a Verizon POTS phone line "and" a cable company cable line they have no requirement to wire that customer with fiber.
All the above is really stating is that a nationwide franchise agreement just requires that they wire their own customers within a specific amount of time. It also requires that they wire any customer that the current cable company has wired which IMO seems 100% fair.
Now beyond that the number of years should be based on the area and what is involved in labor and time to get it done and extensions can be given often enough as long as the delays are beyond their control such as weather or lack of hardware for a specific amount of time. But Verizon pulling out workers to another area won't be an excuse for a delay.
Beyond that the timeframe is just a max amount of time to wire everyone but the order Verizon or another company wires the area is of their sole choice. So they can wire their best customers first just as long as they must wire everyone at some point within the near future is all that is required.
If after reading the above you don't think this is fair I'm not sure what you really expect. Now I'm not saying the Dems will do this but I do believe they will when they have the power todo so which most likely would be in 2008. |
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| My concern with national and statewide franchises is what happens to local programming. The local franchises made way for public broadcasting like PBS and other public access channels. Not to mention local franchises also brought up concerns by the area regarding the building of that infrastructure as well as put some revenue to the community. I'm not saying all local franchises were fair, but the system did work. |
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