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What actual services are really left for them to provide on an OAN though that aren't just as well served being a website?
by rtkwe 9y ago
What actual services are really left for them to provide on an OAN though that aren't just as well served being a website?
- tedd4u 9y agoAll the stuff they offer today. Comcast / Xfinity for example could offer the following over an OAN: Telephony / VOIP Television channels, especially sports Free/sponsored content (NBC etc) Email "security" virus protection etc Business services Home security systems
- tedd4u 9y agoP.s. I think Ammon, Idaho is the model for this. Here's a recent article describing the setup: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-if-switching-fiber-isps-was-as-easy-as-clicking-a-mouse/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/06/what-...
- grahamburger 9y agoThere's also Utopia in Utah. It's not all sunshine and roses but it's pretty good. http://www.utopianet.org http://www.utopianet.org
- wmf 9y agoBut couldn't they could also offer that same stuff over the regular Internet? Why do they need to be your "ISP" to offer that? So that they can sneak extra stuff onto a single confusing bill?
- sli 9y agoYes, and they don't, respectively. Comcast could simply choose not to use the public OAN and stay on their private (or "private") lines, for better or for worse. As for your third question: probably yes, heh.
- sigstoat 9y agocustomer service. cpe rental/installation. hypothetically the actual internet bandwidth itself. cities could provide a nice big fiber network, and then let independent companies actually bring in the internet connection(s) that they're going to resell.
- wmf 9y agocustomer service. cpe rental/installation. The downside is that when you call the "ISP" they pass the buck to the wire company, who usually passes it right back and your Internet never gets fixed. hypothetically the actual internet bandwidth itself. That's a commodity, so having faux competition to resell commodity transit/peering seems like it would just add overhead. Also, splitting a market between multiple small ISPs potentially reduces their volume discounts.
- rayiner 9y agoIdeally, anything that requires maintenance and upgrades is handled by a private company. In Stockholm, for example, the publicly-owned company only provides dark fiber. All of the active equipment (switches, routers, etc.) is provided by private companies.