[1st-mile-nm] NLR recollection

[Christopher Mitchell]

In addition to what John Brown said and something that does not violate
federal law as I believe John Osmon's suggestions do (though they are valid
ideas, just not under current federal rules) - I would suggest what
Kentucky is doing. Rather than paying leasing lines from AT&T for its many
state offices and facilities, it is taking the money it would have used for
leases and building an open access fiber network to those areas with a
point of presence in each county.  This is something that doesn't solve all
the problems, but it does help in a number of areas.

Christopher Mitchell
Director, Community Broadband Networks
Institute for Local Self-Reliance

MuniNetworks.org <http://www.muninetworks.org/>
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On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 6:56 PM, John Osmon <josmon at rigozsaurus.com> wrote:

> > It makes much more sense for our State to create some simple policies
> > that enable competitive providers to actually compete.
>
> How about a single, simple rule to help drive competition:
>   If you use the public right of way, you prohibited from being an ISP.
>
>
> You can provide transport from consumer sites to an ISP, but you can't
> play as one.  Your job is to interconnect consumers and ISPs.
>
> The model worked well in the dial-up and DSL days.  It's working with
> "modern" access models in other geographic areas.
>
>
> Anyone else have some simple ideas that would help?
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