On Jul 21, 2014, at 14:36 , Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> wrote: > ----- 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.
IIRC, we agreed to disagree at the end of that thread. Owen