Re: Connecting rural providers: ethernet to large city or nearby transit

2016-04-13 Thread Benjamin Hatton
We were in a similar situation, smaller rural (although in our case private) provider making the choice between continuing to buy transit from our neighbor (big ISP) whom we compete with in certain towns, or getting ~300 miles of backhaul to NYC and buying transit there. We came off significantly

Re: Connecting rural providers: ethernet to large city or nearby transit

2016-04-13 Thread Mike Hammett
l 12, 2016 11:51:38 PM Subject: Connecting rural providers: ethernet to large city or nearby transit Generic question. Say you have a municipal provider in small town where the municipality won the subsidy over the incumbent to deploy broadband. The easiest is for the town's ISP to b

Connecting rural providers: ethernet to large city or nearby transit

2016-04-12 Thread Jean-Francois Mezei
Generic question. Say you have a municipal provider in small town where the municipality won the subsidy over the incumbent to deploy broadband. The easiest is for the town's ISP to buy transit from the incumbent. But incumbent will not be interested in offering competitive pricing. As a sanity