At the root is that you somehow believe government involvement is always good. History doesn't back you up, especially where broadband is concerned.
Government, most any government, does a pretty poor job if what it should be doing much less tasks it has no business doing. You sound like someone who makes a living directly benefiting from tax dollars. Or even worse, done quasi governmental agency with the tax or secured money benefits but no accountability. On Sun, Oct 30, 2016, 3:45 PM <fiber...@mail.com> wrote: > Chuck wrote: > > Why does it have to be open? > It does not have to be, but if one party offers dark fiber rental and > the other does not, then they are not competing directly on all levels. > Open access also opens up the market to a different level of competition, > which may or may not be a goal. > > > If I string up a bunch of fiber and connect a > > bunch of homes and businesses, how fair is it for the county to use my > > property tax revenue to do the same and put the hurt on me? > Fair to who? > Fair to those that would have been left without service, because you > could not or would not expand to all areas? > Fair to those who would not be able to get the same service as their > neighbors, if the county had left your service area out of their footprint? > > Paying property tax or running a business does not exempt you from > competition, not even from the county. There are very few things you are > entitled to as a business and fairness is not one of them. > > Strictly legally speaking, even if the county overbuilds you, it hasn't > left you worse off. You still have your network, they just have theirs. > Your profit margins might not be the same, but there is no felony > interference with a business model on the books. > > That being said, existing last mile fiber networks are rarely, if ever, > overbuilt by the county. If they are, it's usually due to one of two things: > - the existing network does not cover the whole county > - the existing network is not fulfilling community needs > > There are of course multiple ways in which an overbuild can be avoided. > The county can buy the existing network, it can be further built out with > county financing, the county can buy wholesale access to the network, etc. > > Sometimes an agreement just cannot be reached. More than one public > network has been built because the incumbent did not want to open up the > network, offer (better) services or build out the existing network, even on > the county's dime. > > > > >We don't pay buggy-and-whip tax on our cars either. > > Actually you do, federal excise tax on tires... > Ok, so the federal excise tax on tires was instigated originally to pay > for World War I. It's been repealed and reinstated a bunch of times after > that to pay for a variety of things. Wars, interstates, more wars. Nowadays > it's a way to collect for higherwear-and-tear on highways by heavy vehicles. > > How is this a buggy-and-whip tax? > > Jared > >
