brianstretch
join:2001-12-31
Ann Arbor, MI
| reply to atuarre
Re: AT&T thinks that FTTN is adequate,
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. |
atuarre
Here come the drums
Premium
join:2004-02-14
Lake Charles, LA
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| 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. |
