[olug] Google Fiber home Internet sevice RFI

[Sam Tetherow]

There isn't any state law that I am aware of that prohibits you from 
laying your own infrastructure.  There are hoops that have to be jumped 
through to get ROW from the municipality, but part of the deregulation 
of telco services was for just this purpose.

I know for instance that Three Rivers Telephone "coppered over" Qwest in 
Ainsworth.  Unite fiber in Lincoln has their own fiber loop that is 
outside of Windstream's network.  Time Warner's cable network is outside 
of Windstream in Lincoln, yet both offer voice and internet.  I also 
know that for a while Lincoln was trying to find another cable provider 
to compete against TW.  The reason that it doesn't happen very often is 
that it is horribly expensive to do it and if you don't have a captive 
audience (the only provider) it is hard to make the numbers work.

Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless

Charles Bird wrote:
> I dont know how Google is going to get past the "law".
> Unless I am mistaken, you cant just lay fiber and sell backhaul to an
> interexchange facility unless its the LEC themselves laying the fiber in its
> designated LATA.
> The whole system is really complicated in this regard, because it applied
> mainly to telephone services. I dont think these laws should apply when we
> are talking Ethernet with TCPIP only(Metro Ethernet).
>
> I sell bandwidth and this is the most frustrating aspect.
> I can get anyone Global Crossing, Level3, ATT, etc,(on the carrier's own
> switches even) but its not gonna do anyone any good if it cant get to you.
> Since this is Qwest's LATA, they dont have to compete with anyone and they
> can just say, "Uuuuuuuh, yeah, you wanted Ethernet/metro fiber? Uuuuuh yeah,
> well, we cant do that, so we are gonna offer you either an OC3 or a DS3 with
> SONET/SDH at 12,000 or 6500 per month just for transport and you can run
> Ethernet over it " <--Thats not too cool
>
>
> Ok, so are we going to get organized and flood Google with Omaha based
> requests??
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jay Hannah <jay at jays.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Charles Bird wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm concerned that this is going to be the same way...people on the same
>>> switch can talk great, but when it comes to getting content from
>>>       
>> somewhere
>>     
>>> else, then it'll be slower than molasses.
>>>       
>> Hopefully they can implement the first without suffering the latter. If I
>> could get Cox cable speeds to the Internet, and insane speed to a local
>> chunk of Googley Internet, that would be very cool.   :)
>>
>> j
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