[ale] bandwidth competition (changing the subject)

[Pete Hardie]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 19:26, Thompson Freeman
<tfreeman at intel.digichem.net> wrote:
> Just a bit of a wishful whine here. I personally would _love_ to see a
> service which just provided the fiber to the house/home/condo/whatever.
> Nothing more, just a big fat pipe, preferably with a power source right
> down beside it independent of the power company which could run a POTS
> style interface, or other low power data task. In this way, I would
> hope to limit interference in the market to the biggest single
> bottleneck in revamping electronic communication and media while
> opening up the ability of the players to compete on service and
> support.
>
> Into this fiber the customer would choose competitive offerings for
> push media (cable TV), asymmetric media (on demand cable TV), internet
> connectivity where the data asymmetry isn't necessarily known ahead of
> time, phone/video phone, alarm monitoring with appropriate
> bandwidth limits within each provider's contract. Total bandwidth
> promises sold not to exceed 80-90% of the minimum available bandwidth
> between the service head and the customer equipment.
>
> Regulation of this fiber pipe should be in terms of reliability of
> service, total bandwidth, and access to all providers of electronic
> communications services/media.
>
> I'm sure that the engineers in this group can clean up the
> specification here considerably, and the libertarians can clean up some
> big brother issues.
>
> I think it would work pretty well, but the current dominant players
> might get clawed up in the transition process. And hence I doubt that
> they would support it.



Sounds like the idea of the muni installing and paying for teh fiber
with tax money, and franchising the connections.

Still more OT rant - my DSL was slow this evening.  12.5 Kbps slow.

I call the DSL service line, and ask if there is any issue - no, no
issue.  So I ask for a speed test, and the phone idiot starts to give
me flack about
the router I have.  SO I terminate the call, and behold, my speed
tests start running at 1.4 Mbps again....

I hate when they start to make me run useless tests on my equipment
BEFORE they run a simple test on their stuff.

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