Maxeh
Woot?
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join:2002-12-23
Chicago, IL
clubs: | reply to Plldwnyrpnts
Re: Telcos lay down lines....
yes, but telcos built the infrastructure laregely with PUBLIC money, hence the infrastructure should be open to the public
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raye
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join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA
| And this is the difference between cable and local telcos.
Cable footed the bill for their infrastructure without taxpayer support. The local telcos had taxpayer financed aid in putting infrastructure in place.
IMHO, Cable should not be required to share, but telcos should.
What will this line sharing elimination do for T1 providers? |
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JohnDrenZ
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join:2000-04-03
Phoenix, AZ
 ·Optimum Online
| said by raye  :What will this line sharing elimination do for T1 providers? T1 is an unbundled product (UNE-P) so any ruling wouldnt effect it. |
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skrupowies
join:2002-08-22
Wallingford, CT
clubs:
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| reply to raye
I suppose one could argue that it was "semi-public" money that placed the majority of the existing cables and poles since they were done during the days of big time monopoly. However, ALL of the DSL based infrastructure (DSLAMs, NGDLC RTs, fiber, etc) has been placed during the days of competition. There is no public money involved so there should be no requirement to share that equipment. And of course there is that great misnomer called competition anyway. How can it be called competition when NO ONE wants to build their own network? All any of them want to do is mooch off the incumbents. Let the incumbents design it, let the incumbents build it, let the incumbents maintain it, let the incumbents provision it but let me use it for some ridiculously low cost so I can slap my name on the bill. |
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