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Re: Competitve and robust... said by elray:Local action is fine, but not by government. Form a coop. Having the public purse strings finance the operation means there is no incentive for efficiency, nor respect for the public/customers. The models of many muni projects I've seen don't preclude private enterprise. The setup is such that the local government owns the right of ways and the physical infrastructure and local ISPs and co-ops lease capacity. The municipality need only maintain the infrastructure. This model works. It eliminates the last mile monopoly on services that is one of the problems plaguing networks owned by the incumbents.
A third party who owns and rents out the network to any provider who can afford to lease capacity is the best model as demonstrated by the shortcomings of the current model of leasing networks.
Do you think, for a moment, that Verizon would deploy FIOS if every local government announced their intent to build a municipal fiber system? Absolutely not. But truth be told, the best answer to the question is, would every local government deploy an FTTH system if the local carrier was delivering networks that are modern and up to date? And the response to that would be, "No."
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