>Or the government can go the other way and regulate fiber too, and make it like bridges, paid for by the tax payer, free to use by everyone. There's the rub.

>Or the government can go the other way and regulate fiber too, and make it like bridges, paid for by the tax payer, free to use by everyone. There's the rub. It works for bridges and tunnels and highways and all that, but for telecom, there's some sort of weird "we own these lines" crap. Could you imagine if highways were run the way telecom is being run? You'd be okay until you had to leave the city, where you'd encounter massive toll roads, then, once you decided to leave the state, you'd have to pay even higher tolls because you'd be using "someone else's" roads. The literal "roaming charge". Insanity. Government should nationalize all communications infrastructure and allow the ATT's of the world to sell access in a largely unregulated market. Low cost of entry, plus stiff competition and everyone wins.