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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/3/21 09:07, Jim Troutman wrote:<br>
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<div>No. Most of the municipal proposals I see are open
access, even with a PON design. <br>
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In South Africa (we don't have city-owned/operated fibre access),
all the major fibre operators run a GPON network. They all provide
open access to the ISP's they partner with. So far, it seems to work
well.<br>
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I'd say only one of the fibre operators is not an ISP (there may be
more, it's a big country). The rest are, but they run the businesses
as a silo so that they are fair to both their ISP divisions as well
as the 3rd party ISP's they partner with.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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