Invoke Kushnick's Law <http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=25868748>
* 'A regulated company will always renege on promises to provide public benefits tomorrow in exchange for regulatory and financial benefits today.'* On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei < jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca> wrote: > On 14-12-02 21:16, Owen DeLong wrote: > > Depends on your desired outcome and goals. However… > > Context: Canadian incumbents deny to the regulator that they have > intentions to turn off copper. (but to shareholders, openly say they > will shut it donw, howveer, they plan only to shutdown active equipment > and leave copper in the poles. Their fibre is hung off the same steel > support line as copper). > > One reason is that by pretending that copper is here to stay and is > competitive, they hope to convicne CRTC that mandating wholesale access > to FTTP is not necessary. > > > > > > it makes more sense to explain to regulators why maintaining copper once > sufficient FTTP adoption > > is complete is foolhearty and a waste of money. > > Yeah, that is the way I am spinning it. (hey, I learn about spin from > the best - the canadian incumbents :-) > > > If you’re trying to preserve access to dry copper for some reason, > > I am the only one in the whole proceeding who is advocating for the > earliest possible widthdrawal fo copper. The earlier they can remove > irt, the easier it is for them to justify the investment, and the less > reasons they have for preventing access to FTTP. > > The confirmation from someone else in the thread that Comcast stops > selling access to copper once FTTP is up is a good point to make. > > I am up on Thursday morning. Am second to last to speak, so hopefully I > can make a good impression. (this is for round two, first round finished > today). > -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -