On 4 Sep 2010, at 06:17, Patrik Faltstrom (pfaltstr) wrote:
On 4 sep 2010, at 07:06, "Randall Gellens" <rg+ietf(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com>
wrote:
The idea being that a regulated or even municipal entity builds and
maintains the outside plant, with any Internet provider able to use it to
offer service. That way all details of the service are open to competition.
This is what for example us happening in Sweden all over the place. Most well
known project in Sweden is the City of Stockholm where STOKAB is providing
dark fiber (as a product) and nothing more.
In a similar way many villages and individual home owners dig down their own
fiber.
I am sure it happens in other parts of the world as well.
http://www.openreach.com
For a regulated approach. Although part of BT, Openreach owns the outside plant
and is regulated separately (& more tightly) than the Wholesale and other
divisions. Open access to Openreach products to any ISP/network provider,
Openreach must sell to BT on exactly the same terms as it does to its other
customers including release of product plans etc.
If one needs more than "wires only" type access to the outside plant can be
accessed through the (also) regulated Wholesale division.
It leads to many ISPs differentiating themselves from each other in a variety
of ways so if you want a download cap >X GB or an ISP that doesn't mess with
P2P you can probably find one. Some of the ISPs don't even own any
infrastructure of their own and are really just branding & billing functions.
How well it works I leave as an exercise for the reader, however...
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/statistics/regional
has some stats on the number of distinct providers (i.e. those that operate
some form of actual network rather than just reselling) with the numbers
ranging from ~11 per Exchange (Central Office) on average in London to ~2 per
exchange on average in Scotland.
ben
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