Paul, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Paul Graydon <p...@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/03/133-us-cities-now-run-their-own-broadband-networks.ars > > Ars Technica has a short article up about the growth of municipal networks, > but principally a nice little 'hey check out this website' > (http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap) (snip) > I'm curious how the feeling is on NANOG about shifting such provision > towards municipal instead of corporations? I guess a rough summary of the > competing views I've heard so far are: (snip)
With experience from Sweden, which has seen many varying incantations of these sort of networks, I have this hopefully useful bit to share: It's OK for tax-payer money to build layer-1 infrastructure if it decides so, that non-tax payer money can sell services on, but fail starts to happen the very moment they decide to go higher than that. That's... all. Regards, Martin
