patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | good idea The best idea, IMO, is, once someone claims they have no broadband and dont qualify for anything, create a zone for the area, and reverse auction the area/have existing broadband providers in NY state (not just the area) bid for that area, whoever needs least subsidies to build, gets the contract. One of the requirements for this program is that a carrier must offer the same speeds/quality of service as they do elsewhere in NY state, and service must be provided under same terms, also a provider must claim its a landline or landline equivelent service broadband INTERNET service, no VZ Wireless EVDO TOS and caps and "abuse terminations". Also there should be a franchise/pole access/land/location acceleration, so basically a local town cant say no to a non-local provider moving in, since there are plenty of towns that feel quite cozy with the franchise fees they get from Cable Co's. Also to prevent "competing with private enterprise" and "must protect exclusitivity" and "fair playing ground" lawsuits, give 6 months-1 year for the incumbant zoned for the area to build out, no extensions(stalling tactic), if they dont build it out, game over, they lost their exclusitivity to the unserved area. For wireless delivery methods, you need to have a "landline equivelent/circuit equivelent" clause to prevent companies with no spectrum and no desire to split cells from terminating users left and right; also for wireless if a town rejects the site planned for the wireless service, it must present a alternative site that would service the unserved people. Towns can demand camoflauging. Also wireless services can mount picocells on utility poles, and run their own fiber optic lines (prevent local telco from charging 100K a month in loop charges) back to a telco central office or other telecom center. Once a wired broadband provider ensures 100% build out in the uncovered zone, they can expand their plant to the rest of the county but only from their "no coverage zone" outwards (to prevent them from doing middle of no where NYC (its a example) under contract, then jumping to midtown manhatten, instead the provider would need to build the plant out going towards manhatten).
The contracts should only subsidize construction of plant, not maintenece, its a 1 time thing, otherwise there will be a USF nightmare. AT MOST 1 year of subsidizing operations to collect customers.
Pretty much my plan is to threaten existing incumbants to build out or the area goes out on for bidding, then
-have other cable companies try to build a small network in the area, either a another incumbant or a overbuilder like RCN (RCN type more likly)
-have another telco with plant come by and wire it up (and possibly claim USF also on the phone plant hehehehe)
-fiber providers come by and install FTTP (sparse housing, why not?), should be easy, you only need to build/splice a drop in when someone orders service, or rarly put a drop box and just run a fiber drop along the road for 1K-3K feet to the house
-wireless providers such as cellphone companies (must be regulated to provide circuit like service) or wimax or WISPs
Also the important part is, someone must make a complaint they have no broadband at their home. You dont need to wire state parks, and middle of nowhere and cow fields and commercial/industrial buildings (they should pay for private line fiber). Also the zone to build out should include all houses from the last point of broadband availability to slightly after the complaint's house or to where there is a barrier (end of a row of houses) and no more houses for a long distence. |
