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What your city did sounds great, and I hope it will be similarly done in other places as well. I think ideally the city should allow for other ISPs to lease th
by takeda 5y ago
What your city did sounds great, and I hope it will be similarly done in other places as well.
I think ideally the city should allow for other ISPs to lease these lines (of course at price that would cover the cost of maintaining them) and still providing option to be one of those ISPs. This would lower the barrier to enter for other ISPs and perhaps further lower the price.
I only hope that your city won't end up selling the infrastructure to someone in the future, because that will of course kill the whole effort.
I believe the key to solve our ISP problems is unbundling the local loop. The bill that congress wants to pass to fix Internet will be a failure, unless the money is meant for local governments to do the same your city did.
- bombcar 5y agoIf providers would take the money they'd normally fight municipal broadband with and instead fight for access to the "last mile" they'd come out way ahead - offload a cost center to the municipality, get better access and speed, and be able to differentiate on services.
- takeda 5y agoThey would, but so would their competitors. Comcast and Spectrum have currently a great position, because cost to enter the market for anyone else is so high. Not even Google with their "unlimited" amount of money was able to get through it. It's crazy that currently the only way to enter the market is to deploy thousands of satellites (like Starlink) and once Starlink becomes a competitor to current ISPs other competitors won't be able to follow them. This situation can't be solved without changing laws and local governments.