Followup: Small City Municipal Broadband

[jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brandon Ross" <bross at pobox.com>

> > 6) And pursuant to 3, perhaps I could even set up the IPTV service and
> > resell that to the L3 provider to bundle with their IP service, so
> > they don't have to do it themselves; while it's not a difficult as I
> > had gathered, it's still harder than them doing VoIP as part of
> > their own triple-play.
> 
> So you are going to prohibit the operator of the fiber plant from
> running layer 3 services, but then turn around and let them offer IPTV? That
> seems quite inconsistent to me. And just because it's "hard"?

No; I wouldn't offer it retail; I'd offer it to all provider-comers
wholesale, at cost plus, just like everything else.

> Running a decent layer 3 service is "hard" too. Isn't the whole point to
> let these service providers compete with each other on the quality and
> cost of their services?

You could say the same thing about the uplink, though; I note you didn't 
throw a flag at that, or at Akamai; is the IPTV issue different to you?

Fair point.

Cheers,
-- jra
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