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The downside of removing competitive pressure on the physical last mile is it removes the incentive to invest in building it. Fiber to the Home is an extremely
by rdl 10y ago
The downside of removing competitive pressure on the physical last mile is it removes the incentive to invest in building it.
Fiber to the Home is an extremely marginal economic proposition today. It's not deployed today. Without strong economic drivers for it, it won't get built.
I'd accept that once FTTH exists (bringing fiber back to a neighborhood point), that might be good enough to not require more competition at that level (as long as maintenance can be done.) I'd in principle be fine with any solution to get that built -- a regulated monopoly, direct government buildout, whatever.
- acdha 10y agoRegulated monopolies are profitable, just capped to prevent abuse, and I'd be surprised if there was trouble finding investors for a guaranteed return even if it's not as big as it could be. Also, not sure you've looked at FTTH recently enough: Verizon alone has 32 million customers according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises_in_the...