Chuck McCown wrote: > Who owns the dark fiber network? > Government - we all know how good they are at doing things like this. Others manage. See for example Stokab owned by the city of Stockholm in Sweden.
> Private - so we create good old Ma Bell all over again? First, it does not have to be a single private company. Second, the owner being a private company need not be a problem. Non-discriminatory access to everybody, at set rates with prohibitions against cross-ownership and the offering of retail services. See examples from other industries with wholesale infrastructure providers and structural separation in the telecom industry. Third, there's a pretty big difference between recreating Ma Bell and creating a (regional) dark fiber company that does nothing else than rent dark fiber. > Existing carriers forced to open their networks? OK if you like the > Venezuela solution to things. My proposal does not require existing carriers to open up their networks. > New networks built by low bidder defense contractor? Great, replication and > tax bite too. Where did this come from? I said nothing about defense contractors or tax financing. Jared
