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| good idea he has a point, aslong as it isnt some company who gets the contract for it all.
if you could deploy fibre and allow many companies to utilize it to provide voice, data, and video then you could have a trtue free market.
The government could deploy the fibre or have cities pay for it and they could charge rental fees etc to have companies rent the fibre.
That way old telco's cant keep justifying raising prices for copper......
This also gives other a chance who cant just go around deploying fibre everywhere.
By creating a true free market like that the guys who want to traffic shape and cap are going to have to move on.
Personally i think a system where the city or government owns the fibre and charges private companies to use it would be awsome.
You could have a docsis type system where the provider would provision your mac etc so you would get a specific provider. Now you can have multiple voice,data, and video providers and prices will come down. Consumer wins companies lose.
Telco's have had it way to easy. The cost of starting keeps everyone else out. Look at the pc hardware market prices are falling like crazy. In that business there is no monopolies or oligopolies.
They have to invest, innovate, and make new products at great prices or lose to one of your many competitors. Our telco's would shutter at the idea of other competition meaning they cant keep charging more and giving less.
The teclo industry is becoming more like the banking industry. You have these mega companies thta just get bigger and buy everyone else up. By doing this smaller local companies would grow and foster local economic growth etc. It would be great to say tons of new isp's and foster some growth.
So my idea would be the government, state, city would pay to lay down the fiber and networks and rent it out to companies who want to use it. Then the big guys are in the same pool as the smaller companies. Also a way for the city to generate some income renting access to the network out. | |
| Well said. Another thing that I can't quite understand is why technology gets cheaper and better and yet broadband gets more expensive. You can say increase in speeds justify the cost, but I call BS on that. | |
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