This article from arstechnica is right on topic. Its about how the city of Amsterdam built an open-access fibre network. It seems to me this is the right way to do it, or at least very close to the right way..
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-amsterdam-was-wired-for-open-access-fiber.ars -Marcel On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM, <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:18:26 -1000, Michael Painter said: > >> "The indication of above average or below average is based on a comparison >> of the actual test result to the current NTIA >> definition of broadband which is 768 kbps download and 200 kbps upload. Any >> test result above the NTIA definition is >> considered above average, and any result below is considered below average." > > That's the national definition of "broadband" that we're stuck with. To show > how totally cooked the books are, consider that when they compute "percent of > people with access to residential broadband", they do it on a per-county basis > - and if even *one* subscriber in one corner of the county has broadband, the > entire county counts. >
