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Sam Rose · 4 years ago

You have some good points. But you are characterizing and whitewashing the nature of the big telecoms, like Verizon, SBC, etc. Their demsonstrated goal is to crush all competitors, large and small. The incumbent telecoms may strive for innovation. but they are not the only model capable of communications innovation. And their systems and histories of methodically crushing competition is BAD for innovation.

And, you are ignoring that muniwireless and telecom corporate wireless service can sustainably coexist together. You're forgetting that there are people who do pay taxes to their municipality for extra unused bandwidth that will go unused. many of those same people cannot afford to pay inflated verizon wireless ISP prices to subsidize the Verizon CEO's new yacht. Those people have already paid for the bandwidth going unused by the cities, they could greatly benefit from it, and should be allowed access to it.

If verizon can make a product a few years down the road that is better than muniwireless, thy can sell to people wealthy enough to afford it, and who will probably actually need the performance it can give. Those same wealthier people will probaly also be able to actually afford the newer equipment that can take advantage of the beter commercial service. A good chunk of people in cities can't pony up the cash for the latest and greatest new gizmos and devices. So, these services should be able to coexist. We shouldn't hand the new medium solely to groups who have a history of trying to monopolize it. We should open it up to as many groups and people as we can, so that people can use it in many different ways.

Muniwireless and corporate wireless can coexist. it is not an either/or.

Esme Vos · 4 years ago

Just got back from seminar in Brussels given by the Swedish municipal broadband council. In Sweden, if you use public funds to build a fiber network, you have to wholesale access to service providers on an open, non-discriminatory basis. In the beginning, municipalities and public utilities act as ISPs to seed the market, but as the number of service providers grows, they actually pull back. Cities do not want to become service providers forever and feel that once the number of ISPs delivering broadband (over the fiber network) reaches a critical mass, they can just step back.

Here are some stats in Sweden: in areas where there are open networks, broadband penetration is over 80% (lots of ISPs, lots of competition) but where the networks are owned largely by cable and telco operators, the penetration is less than 20%.

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