 tschmidtPremium,MVM
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| Transparent transport not 3rd party ISPs I fail to see how third party ISPs increase first-mile competition. The ISP is totally dependent on the network owner for existence, either Cableco or Telco.
IMHO a better approach is to require all first-mile networks (Cable, Telco, Satellite, etc) to provide transparent "common carriage" (ISO layers 1-3 - physical, data link, network). This forces the first-mile network owner to structure the business to make money "delivering-bits" without regard to the bits themselves.
A transparent first-mile network allows service offerings to be implemented at the edge of the Internet without regard to HOW people connect. New services can be implemented without the cooperation or permission of the network owner.
I think the regulatory goal should be to force first-mile networks to compete on bit-deliver attributes and service provider to compete on the value of the service they offer. As stated many time it is absolutely critical to keep these too business/technical issues separate to prevent domance in one market from being used to gain control of the other.
A more detailed presentation is here:
»www.tschmidt.com/writings/Broadband_ISP.htm
[text was edited by author 2002-08-02 16:32:29] |
