last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)

Thu Mar 22 17:31:06 UTC 2012

This sharing can be done at a layer-3 or as you say at the time slot level or lambda level. It's no different than what is happening with the copper already. It's not like they have to give it away for free. They just have to offer it to other carriers at cost. This will hopefully provide more of a competitive market. But I don't see Verizon giving into it, nor Comcast or any other provider that has fiber. Verizon campaigned hard to have fiber removed from the equal access legalize so like most of these other large companies, they don't want to share their new toy with the other children. 

-John

Keegan Holley <keegan.holley at sungard.com> wrote:

>2012/3/22 Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net>
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>> On Mar 22, 2012, at 11:05 AM, chris wrote:
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>> > I'm all for VZ being able to reclaim it as long as they open their fiber
>> > which I don't see happening unless its by force via government. At the
>> end
>> > of the day there needs to be the ability to allow competitors in so of
>> > course they shouldnt be allowed to rip out the regulated part and replace
>> > it with a unregulated one.
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>Maybe I'm missing something, but how exactly does one share fiber?  Isn't
>it usually a closed loop between DWDM or Sonet nodes?  It doesn't seem fair
>to force the incumbents to start handing out lambdas and timeslots to their
>competitors on the business side.  I guess passive optical can be shared
>depending on the details of the network, but that would still be much
>different than sharing copper pairs.