James: I'm not following you here -- which party has the right of first refusal?
If I had to guess, what really happened here is that the rural LEC is able to build out FTTH because they are counting on USF (high cost loop support and interstate common line support) to help pay it, while the LEC in an urban area receives no USF, and is not able to financially justify it even with a dense customer base. Frank -----Original Message----- From: James Downs [mailto:e...@egon.cc] Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 1:07 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Roy wrote: > I think it has become obvious that the correct definition of > broadband depends on the users location. A house in the boonies is > not going to get fiber, Perhaps the minimum acceptable bandwidth > should vary by area. A definition of "area" could be some sort of > user density Except this is exactly what happened. The players with vested interests were allowed a sort of "first refusal" on projects. In areas where they had lots of customers, they passed on the projects. So, we find that in urban areas, you can't get fiber in the home, but there are countless rural farms and homes that have fiber just lying around. I have an acquaintance 60 miles from the closest commercial airport in TN, telling me about the fiber internet he has. -j
