| AT&T thinks that FTTN is adequate, which should automatically disqualify them as being broadband "experts".
Not that I trust the feds to get anything right, but if they're going to go through with national broadband bankrolling they should have Google write up a "best practices" design that anyone, including municipal governments, can use to build out dark FTTH systems that any carrier can lease fibers from. If there's already a FTTH system in place (FiOS) then there's no need for federal taxpayer money to be used to build an alternative. That might be enough of a cluestick to get AT&T in gear and build U-verse correctly, but probably not. |
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 atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
join:2004-02-14
College Station, TX | Why should Google write up something? They are as greedy as any of the other companies? I think a neutral entity with no ties to broadband, or search engines, etc, should be used. Google has just as much to gain as the carriers. |
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openbox9
join:2004-01-26
Alexandria, VA
kudos:2 | Don't mind the fact that Google isn't qualified since to my knowledge they've never deployed FTTH. |
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atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
join:2004-02-14
College Station, TX | said by openbox9:Don't mind the fact that Google isn't qualified since to my knowledge they've never deployed FTTH. Agree. |
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dynodbPremium,VIP
join:2004-04-21
Minneapolis, MN | reply to atuarre
A "neutral" entity? What's that?
While providers shouldn't completely own the process, they definitely should be involved as they'd be directly affected and better understand the possibilities and limitations involved. To shut them out of the process completely would be inherently unfair and counterproductive. |
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Well, get someone to. Google just sprung to mind because they're smart and they'd benefit from nationwide FTTH deployment but can't build their own, anywhere, without freaking out the incumbent carriers they're dependent on. One of their guys wrote a high-level position paper on how to do it so they've been thinking about the subject.
Then again, just sit down with the municipalities that have already built such networks and work out a best practices document. Make a credible threat to make this happen and watch the incumbents scramble to roll out FTTH first to head off the federal plan. Works in theory. |
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atuarreHere come the drumsPremium
join:2004-02-14
College Station, TX | Yes, Yes, someone at Google wrote a paper. Google, again, is a business. Remember the auction, where they had everyone believing they wanted to purchase spectrum, but never did? They have the capital to do so. Google knew exactly what they were doing. Like everyone else, Google serves there own interests. I'd prefer, like I said before, an independent group of people, with nothing to benefit from this, to be involved. People aren't doing what's best for the country, they are doing what's best for their bottom lines. That's the problem here. Everyone in Washington is on the payroll for somebody else.
But as always, I am sure Connected Nation, or some other think tank will be responsible for all this, and it will be BAU in Washington. |
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