| No help for rural broadband Line sharing is a disincentive for telco's to deploy BB tech in rural areas because of an uncertain ROI.
Consumers with service issues get screwed when the telco and the line sharing company point fingers rather than cooperate to resolve a problem. |
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| said by hoyleysox:Line sharing is a disincentive for telco's to deploy BB tech in rural areas because of an uncertain ROI. Consumers with service issues get screwed when the telco and the line sharing company point fingers rather than cooperate to resolve a problem. Like they are deploying BB tech to rural areas now?  |
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Linesharing is still in place in rural areas, and rural LECs specifically requested to remain under title-II rules, such as line sharing.
Not because they love regulation, but because some Title-II rules allow them to participate in NECA pooling and tarrifing, which spreads risk.
They don't care they are still subjected to line sharing, because no CLEC wants to focus on rural markets. |
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Chandler, AZ | reply to hoyleysox
said by hoyleysox:Line sharing is a disincentive for telco's to deploy BB tech in rural areas because of an uncertain ROI. uncertain *direct* roi (i.e. from subscribers on direct plans). however, i would *tend* to think that if a group of people show interest in forming an isp in a rural area that the incumbents (with deep pocketbooks) could deploy infrastructure on a guarantee of service commitment from the rural isps.
this nets the incumbents steady income to subsidise the cost of deployment, sheltering them against the "worry of roi" and places the control of the network in the hands of the people who know the community the best - the rural isp.
it seems like it could actually *bolster* growth of rural broadband, in a perfect world.
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said by digitalfreak:Like they are deploying BB tech to rural areas now? My thoughts exactly 
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| said by jimbo2150:said by digitalfreak:Like they are deploying BB tech to rural areas now? My thoughts exactly Yep, where are all the rural areas that Verizon is deploying FiOS to??? |
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They are. |
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Why buy broadband from a company leasing the lines when you can go right to the source ?? Unfortunately the incumbents. Competitors need to be more like RCN who overbuild with their own lines to compete with the incumbents. |
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