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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: fcc ruling on dsl providers' access to infrastructure
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:20:19PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > Clearly this is a special situation where there is a natural monopoly > given to whomever runs the wires. Maybe what we need is a certain class of > company who will be responsible for running and maintaining the public > data infrastructures. They could have lots of government regulations to > ensure that they are charging a "fair" price while still being guaranteed > a profit, and they could provide the last mile service for all those ISPs > out there who are the ones that can actually compete and innovate. We > could call them telcos, and... oh wait, nevermind. I believe you've mispronounced: municipalities. Oh, wait: Congress wants to outlaw *that*, too. Cheers, -- jr 'Second American Revolution?' a -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Designer +-Internetworking------+----------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://bestpractices.wikicities.com +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me
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