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Why can't there be a shared conduit for cables underneath or beside a road? Because the city doesn't want to pay for it. What needs to happen, IMO, is that th
by CountSessine 6y ago
Why can't there be a shared conduit for cables underneath or beside a road?
Because the city doesn't want to pay for it.
What needs to happen, IMO, is that the last mile should be utility infrastructure, and ISPs should connect to that
...so, the cities won’t shell out to build conduits, but they’ll happily pay to build out conduits + fiber?
- monocasa 6y agoWell, they don't need to build out conduits + fiber, only fiber since the idea is encourage their monopoly over the last mile. They just need to do what is happening today on the private side and run a fiber (which is cheaper for each individual player). Then encouraging everything other than the last mile to be private sets up all the right incentive structures as far as I can see to solve a lot of problems of broadband internet access. You can see this model in very similar markets, where some countries run the cell network as a national utility. But your actual carriers are a large choice of companies connected to that network that differentiate on service, price, and added on features, rather than the amount of capital available for infrastructure investment.
- chrishacken 6y agoWell you need conduit to run fiber generally; so you would be doing both.