> JC Dill wrote: > > IMHO the biggest obstacle to defining broadband is figuring out how to > > describe how it is used in a way that prevents an ILEC from installing > > it so that only the ILEC can use it. If the customer doesn't have at > > Oh, that's easy. If the government pays for 90% of the plant cost, I'm > sure ILECs would love to share it with everyone else. Until then, put > your own plant in. As an added bonus, when you put your own plant in as > a CLEC, you can just serve the profitable areas and leave the poor ILEC > having to serve the barn 15 miles from the nearest neighbor.
Huh? Wait, don't drink anymore of that, guys! We've *already* subsidized the telcos $200 billion for a next generation broadband-capable plant, that was supposed to be LEC-neutral... http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_002683.html So, we've *already* paid the plant cost, and we've gotten nothing much in return. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.