Mike Hammett wrote:
In no way is what I said wrong. Incumbent operators (coax or copper
pairs) screw things up constantly (whether technically or in the
business side of things), prompting a sea of independent operators
to overbuild them (or fill in where they haven't).
See below:
: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incumbent_local_exchange_carrier
: Various regional independents also held incumbent monopolies
: in their respective regions.
to know many independent operators are incumbent operators.
I don't mean non-RBOC ILECs. I mean WISPs, regional fiber operators,
I'm afraid "non-RBOC" is a synonym of "independent".
Anyway, ILECs including both RBOCs and thousands of non-RBOC ones
should be the regional fiber operators, as I already wrote:
: Many ILECs enjoying regional monopoly should be 100+ years old:
: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_telephone_company
: By 1903 while the Bell system had 1,278,000 subscribers on
: 1,514 main exchanges, the independents, excluding non-profit
: rural cooperatives, claimed about 2 million subscribers on
: 6,150 exchanges.[1]
: The size ranged from small mom and pop companies run by a
: husband and wife team, to large independent companies,
: many of which should now be PON operators still enjoying regional
: monopoly.
> Bob from down the street that retired and built a fiber company to
> serve his small town. I mean companies with less than 10,000
> customers and are younger than 20 years. There are literally
> thousands of them in the US and they're only getting more formidable
> in the face of lousy incumbents.
See above:
: The size ranged from small mom and pop companies run by a
: husband and wife team
Thousands of Bobs from down the street retired and built telephone
companies, now recognized as non-RBOC ILECs, to serve their small
towns 100+ years ago.
Newly coming Bobs can survive as regional fiber operators
only in regions not served by ILECs as PON providers.
Masataka Ohta
