[olug] Google Fiber home Internet sevice RFI

[Charles Bird]

Now if you lease dark fiber from Unite, light it yourself and then it
becomes "your" network, which would legally allow you to choose the carrier
for transit.

Intercity transport I believe is all up for grabs and very competitive.

I gotta read up on this some more lol



On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Dan Clough <dan at miniarpa.net> wrote:

> Are there any laws on LES selling their fiber to a private entity?  Are
> there any regulatory processes that must be endured before Google could
> swoop in and easily pick up most of the Lincoln area using LES fiber?
>
> Dan
>
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:47 PM, Sam Tetherow 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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