----- Original Message ----- > From: "Owen DeLong" <o...@delong.com>
> Whoever installs fiber first and gets any significant fraction of > subscribers in any > but the densest of population centers is a competition killer, _IF_ > you let them > parlay that physical infrastructure into an anti-competitive > environment for higher layer services. As I noted in a long thread last year, I think that providing noncompetitive L2 aggregation as well -- on the same type of terms -- is productive in reducing barriers to entry. But no sense in relitigating that here. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274