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Leaving it to localities also enables more experimentation and inter-locality competition (as with Google Fiber rollouts)... while national rules create a prema
by gojomo 13y ago
Leaving it to localities also enables more experimentation and inter-locality competition (as with Google Fiber rollouts)... while national rules create a premature uniformity.
- rdl 13y agoOne of the experiments I'd like to see is someone getting either a highly-regulated utility (possibly even municipality-owned) or some level of highly competitive market correct. I don't think a local government should be in the business of delivering IP to residential/business customers, but having an exceptionally easy process for trenching might work, or conduit, or dark fiber (or even lit fiber to areas). After a century, we're still innovating on the power networks (net metering, etc.). We might even be in the Edison vs. Tesla days for IP.
- gojomo 13y agoOr even just wifi access-points on telephone poles. Municipalities can be dumb and captured, but when a few innovate, and then the laggards are embarrassed, deeper and more interesting change will happen, compared to anything that can happen through a DC/FCC/DNC/RNC lobbying process.