[Cialug] Iowa Municipal Telecom Legisation

[Dave Weis]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Michael Osten wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2005, at 3:46 PM, Jon Clemons wrote:
>> The big play now is all the big Telco's trying to monopolize
>> telephone, internet and TV so they can be the provider of
>> all three services which if successful will shut down
>> a lot of other businesses. They don't want Municipalities
>> to take that market share away from them anywhere.
>
> No, the big play now is all the big (and little) telco's trying to say alive 
> when unregulated carriers start offering triple play services.  You've got 
> comcast/municipalities completely unregulated providing 2 of the 3, and 
> planning on offering voice soon.  Tell me how that is a fair competitive 
> environment, and good for the consumer?

For new deployments of FTTH/FTTC, the ILECs can play by the same rules. 
The only requirement of competitive access is allowing a single voice 
channel to CLECs. That leaves plenty of margin.

dave

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