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Last Mile competition
> We can do this in the last mile by bringing in more participants, and opening up competition for the ones already there. What are the options here? - Wireless - Line of sight optical - Cable - ??? I suggested following the UK model and regulating the Telcos into selling wholesale bandwidth and LLU (Local Loop Unbundling). Is there a free market alternative that does the same thing? What if a major player (like Google[1], or AOL, say) went to the Telcos and asked to rent rackspace and access to the line in the Telco's local loop centres. And then used their backhaul and private network (built from buying dark fibre) to supply the internet bandwidth. Could the Telcos do this and find a cost level that benefited every one? How about going to the other utilities with a last mile connection (electricity, gas, water) and offering the same thing? Electricity looks most appealing as they already have local transformers that can act as central points for groups of households. Underlying all this thought is the belief that competition in retail internet provision makes Net Neutrality moot. That is right, isn't it? [1]Remember those persistent rumours that Google was buying up dark fibre and had built a replicable datacentre in a shipping container? There are responses to this message:
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