FCC Wants 1 Month Extension For Broadband Plan Deadline > Access & Competition are mutually exclusive

Access & Competition are mutually exclusive

You are certainly correct if the only companies allowed to extend rural broadband are the existing incumbents.

If, instead, you assume all companies have equal access to rural incentives, and are not granted huge monopoly powers, (like existing Telcos and Cable Co.s were) then access and completion go hand in hand.

This is why everyone wants to see the plan, to find out if it is just a gift of money to Ma Bell.

»www.netwirelessllc.com/
is an example of what the plan SHOULD encourage, but won't.
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reply to hoyleysox
One thing the FCC could do is allow CLECs to collocate their DSLAMs in remotes, and set a cap on megabit-per-mile costs the ILEC can charge for transport between its CO and locations on its network. Heck, if they loosened provisions for DLECs so that there were a minimal number of hoops to jump through to become a DSL provider using the ILEC's copper that would be even better.

Granted, a realistic top speed for pair-bonded ADSL2+ Annex M (the best thing deployable via this system) would be 36/4 or so, with 24/3 being a more usual number (or 12/1.5 for a single line) and 6/1.5 for longer loop lengths (or 3/768 for single-line) but that's MUCH better than the cellular broadband that's available in these underserved areas, and MILES ahead of satellite internet.

i am a dsl tech for an ilec,a competing clec does have thier dslams in our offices.after they place those it is up to the ilec employees to wire them to the outside facilities{cable pairs} and also maintain those cable pairs to the nid.and run trouble to the nid in the case of a clec request.this particular clec is low life enough to try to get the ilec tech to run trouble inside.fat chance of that.i understand the reason for the clecs right to provide service.what is irritating is they are the first priority over anything but special circuits.its really a tangled bunch of b.s.

Techs are pulled off of retail ilec troubles to fix clec wholesale customers. The ilecs quit being proactive because all the do gooders had no problem giving away anything build for the future.
How many of you guys would like if a competitor moved into your building and paid below cost just for the space the used. While your company paid all the costs for heat, AC, insurance, etc. If they want the break room it was theirs. It would be like I came to your house and took your mortgage figured up the sq footage of the extra bedroom and just set the rent for the area. Nothing for that else that makes the home useable.
The ilecs are required to serve everybody that pays their bill. Every other company can serve just the customers and the area they find profitable. With all those advantages most of them still failed.

reply to hoyleysox
And that is my point, had you not been granted monopoly's on all that infrastructure, there would have been no push to have CLECs. If none of the FCC rural broadband money goes to ILECs, then there will be no pesky strings about sharing the taxpayer's investment. And there will be competition from the ISPs it DOES go to. Win-Win.
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