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Don't know how it works, but I do think that's how it should be. Municipality providers dark fiber from the CO(s) to every house. From there, any ISP can rent
by gregmac 2y ago
Don't know how it works, but I do think that's how it should be. Municipality providers dark fiber from the CO(s) to every house.
From there, any ISP can rent rack space, and arrange their own backbone/uplink, and get wired to whatever customers they can. Municipality charges a fee to use the fiber, and that's it.
Muni provides the line to the CO, ISP is responsible after that. They can compete on their internet speed, price, support, and whatever else they want (Netflix box, email, low latency to game servers).
Muni could even add a "no-internet" free service that just provides access to city services, library, etc.
- kube-system 2y agoIt is worth noting that in the US, there's a not-insignificant part of the country that isn't in a municipality.
- WarOnPrivacy 2y ago> I do think that's how it should be. Municipality providers dark fiber from the CO(s) to every house. We have a variant of that here. An indy company just laid fiber here but they don't provide service. Instead I have a choice of 8+ competing fiber companies. Before fiber, I had 1 'choice' of ISP and paid $124/mo for 1Gb/40Mb w/ 40ms latency to the IX. Now my choices include 1Gb/1Gb $49, 2Gb/2Gb $79, 10Gb/10Gb $199 w/ 4ms latency to the IX.
- sgerenser 2y agoWouldn’t that “no-internet” service actually run afoul of the newly reinstated Net Neutrality rules? Or is there an exception in it for non-commercial or governmental services?