arstechnica.com— A small town in Minnesota wants to build its own fiber to the home network. The local telco didn't want to do it, but it doesn't want the city competing with it, either. That means one thing: lawsuit.
Jul 24, 2008View in Crawl 4
If you have no interest in developing a product in a location, then you have no business declaring that others who do want to develop that product are attempting to compete, legally, or otherwise. It may be a product that you could develop, but you have chosen not to. Therefore no business, or city are in competition with you. I have no sympathy for the phone company who thinks that going to court is a reasonable business practice.
The local cable system, if they have any sense at all will already be working on it! Let's face it: it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it! While the Rural Electrification administration(Which actually built, not only parts of the power grid, but many of the county's smaller wireline phone systems as well) is not really up to the task any more, but the model and template they provided us is fundamentally sound, and should be used as a model for how to build out America in fiber!
Oh, so this is more like UTOPIA, where people can choose their service provider over the physical medium. I don't know why any telco/cableco would be against that, since they wouldn't have to invest in or maintain the last mile.
that's his ONLY issue that i don't agree with him on.but i do believe that government should regulate the telecoms using it since a lot of the infrastructure was built using government subsidies. It's only fair to the tax payers that the government doesn't hand it over to the telecoms.Now, government regulation on other things, for instance controlling the radio frequencies? Absolutely not. Did they pay for the airwaves? No, so the FCC can STFU about that.
stavrosianJul 25, 2008
Dugg for not spelling it "rediculous" among other things.
ayeroxorJul 25, 2008
"Telco won't install fiber network, sues to prevent city from"Nice title. Lazy much?
rusty0101Jul 25, 2008
If you have no interest in developing a product in a location, then you have no business declaring that others who do want to develop that product are attempting to compete, legally, or otherwise. It may be a product that you could develop, but you have chosen not to. Therefore no business, or city are in competition with you. I have no sympathy for the phone company who thinks that going to court is a reasonable business practice.
avangionqJul 25, 2008
This is exactly the sort of situation that monopoly busting federal anti-trust laws were meant to solve ...
scheissenJul 25, 2008
RTFA
gkiltzJul 26, 2008
The local cable system, if they have any sense at all will already be working on it! Let's face it: it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it! While the Rural Electrification administration(Which actually built, not only parts of the power grid, but many of the county's smaller wireline phone systems as well) is not really up to the task any more, but the model and template they provided us is fundamentally sound, and should be used as a model for how to build out America in fiber!
1310nmJul 26, 2008
Oh, so this is more like UTOPIA, where people can choose their service provider over the physical medium. I don't know why any telco/cableco would be against that, since they wouldn't have to invest in or maintain the last mile.
esc27Jul 28, 2008
Perhaps what we need are telecom cooperatives. The concept worked extremely well for bring electricity to rural areas.
latrosicariusAug 3, 2008
that's his ONLY issue that i don't agree with him on.but i do believe that government should regulate the telecoms using it since a lot of the infrastructure was built using government subsidies. It's only fair to the tax payers that the government doesn't hand it over to the telecoms.Now, government regulation on other things, for instance controlling the radio frequencies? Absolutely not. Did they pay for the airwaves? No, so the FCC can STFU about that.