alchav
join:2002-05-17
Palm Desert, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
|  said by SRFireside  :said by alchav :I don't understand why you guys would think of going any other way. I have been saying this is the way to go for quite a while now. Which is why I brought up the question. The ONLY way to have fair competition in a system where a single infrastructure is available is to have that infrastructure be just infrastructure and not content. Then lease out access to said infrastructure to the content providers. You are partly right, when a Community or City lays down Fiber it has to connect to something not just dangle in the breeze waiting for a Provider. Who ever is laying down the Fiber is building a Network, and with this Network comes the Content, but the end User gets to pick and pay for the Content they want. The Incumbents, like you guys call them, can't offer Content until they buy it from a Provider, in bulk or on an individual basis. |
