[olug] Google Fiber home Internet sevice RFI

[Charles Bird]

What I was trying to say is that if Google is providing the fiber from house
to a place where the consumer can choose the carrier for transit IP(a
carrier hotel, IXP), then under current regulations as I understand it, that
would be illegal.
Now if Google provided the fiber, AND the transit, it would be legal...a
double fisted middleman between the end user and the internet in this case.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure thats the way it is, and that would be
fed law.





On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Sam Tetherow <tetherow at shwisp.net> wrote:

> Yes, but Google is not a government entity.
> Sam Tetherow
> Sandhills Wireless
>
>
> James Ringler wrote:
>
>> Sam Tetherow wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>>
>> They passed a law about 10 years ago that prohibited municipal entities
>> from becoming an ISP.    Windstream and Time Warner lobbied for the law
>> since TW was in the process of launching Road Runner.   At the time, LES had
>> the entire city laced with fiber and TW was worried that if LES could light
>> it up, TW would lose their back side.   The law never was lifted off the
>> books.  At that time we were working on fiber to the desktop in Waverly..
>>  since they were booming with industry development.   Our plans were quickly
>> shattered
>>
>> Here's a link that shows Nebraska being on the ban.
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/municipal-fiber-needs-more-fdr-localism-fewer-state-bans.ars
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