 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to fifty nine
Re: Copper? what Copper? said by fifty nine:As for the CLECs, I like the fact that there's competition. The telcos are using public rights of way that we pay for. They need to give open access to competitors, and the most efficient way to do that is to allow CLECs. Just a quick note, the ILECs almost always pay to use the public right of way. It is almost always negotiated in the franchise agreement or with the PUC. |
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| said by Matt:said by fifty nine:As for the CLECs, I like the fact that there's competition. The telcos are using public rights of way that we pay for. They need to give open access to competitors, and the most efficient way to do that is to allow CLECs. Just a quick note, the ILECs almost always pay to use the public right of way. It is almost always negotiated in the franchise agreement or with the PUC. Regardless of whether they pay or not, it's land that landowners give them access to whether they wanted to or not. I have utility easements on my property and I can assure you that I had NO choice in the matter. |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by fifty nine:said by Matt:said by fifty nine:As for the CLECs, I like the fact that there's competition. The telcos are using public rights of way that we pay for. They need to give open access to competitors, and the most efficient way to do that is to allow CLECs. Just a quick note, the ILECs almost always pay to use the public right of way. It is almost always negotiated in the franchise agreement or with the PUC. Regardless of whether they pay or not, it's land that landowners give them access to whether they wanted to or not. I have utility easements on my property and I can assure you that I had NO choice in the matter. Take that up with your city. It's not just the telephone/cable companies who use it. It can be used for water, gas, sidewalk, basically whatever the easement allows. |
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| said by Matt:Take that up with your city. It's not just the telephone/cable companies who use it. It can be used for water, gas, sidewalk, basically whatever the easement allows. Sure. Like that's real effective. They wanted to run a big 500kv powerline through here and basically they told us if we didn't cooperate they'd go to the state PUC and they'd seize our land from us forcibly. The powerline essentially exports power to big cities like NYC and Newark. We don't see much benefit here, and property values would quickly go down if there's a big powerline in your back yard.
Ever heard the saying, "you can't fight city hall?"
All I want is some choice in providers in exchange for the moneymaking rights of way that monopoly telcos are given.
In addition they've been collecting USF and lots of other taxes and fees for years. All we want is a little return on our investment and not to be given a "take it or leave it" attitude by monopoly telcos.
Is that really a bad thing to ask for?
By the way the only utilities that swing by here are electric, phone and cable. Water is from wells and no gas lines, at least none that serve us anyway. They're all headed to the bigger towns and cities. |
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