On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 01:34:58PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2014, at 11:38 , William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > > > The only exception I see to this would be if localities were > > constrained to providing point to point and point to multipoint > > communications infrastructure within the locality on a reasonable and > > non-discriminatory basis. The competition that would foster on the > > Yes... This is absolutely the right answer, but they should only be able to > provide > physical link, not higher layer services.
I try to point people to the City of Idaho Falls, Idaho at this point in the conversation. They supply dark fiber to commercial entities. I inherited a network built on it during an acquisition a number of years ago. The city was much more responsive than any telco provider. Pricing was well within reach of smaller providers.