[1st-mile-nm] Intellectual underpinning for open fiber networks

[Carroll Cagle]

Many of you may have seen this article from the Baller-Herbst list, but I
thought these excerpts were worth passing along to further interest those
who missed it.

Carroll

 

Nobel-Winning Message for the FCC

3 Oct 14, 2014

By  <http://www.bloombergview.com/contributors/susan-p-crawford> Susan
Crawford 

Bloomberg View

 

Jean Tirole's
<http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-13/jean-tirole-wins-2014-nobel-econom
ics-prize-academy-says.html> Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is being
celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic by academics and economists. But
there is no joy in the power circles of U.S. telecommunications policy. More
than a decade ago, federal policy makers turned their backs on Tirole's
sensible assessments of private communications utilities -- and with
disastrous results.

Tirole's insight was that any company controlling physical lines into homes
and businesses, left to its own devices, would act as a natural monopoly,
extracting tribute from every other business and customer that depends on
communications capacity. To constrain that power, regulators might need to
separate wholesale and retail communications-access services, and require
interconnection with other networks.

 

Full article here:
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-14/nobel-winning-message-for-t
he-fcc

 

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