[opendtv] Re: Chairman Pai Statement on fiber-purchase deal between Verizon and Corning
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 03:01:23 +0000
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
What crap. You have one, in practice, which is Cox.
Typical...change the subject.
The fact is that there are already multiple competitors in both
the Gainesville and Ocala markets, including systems run by the
municipal utilities.
Again, this is crap, Craig. A waste of words. You have a single choice at home
now. If you have a different choice, while sitting at Starbucks, it does not
change the fact that at home you have one choice. Upgraded DSL may well be your
second future choice, and I already covered that. It's still going to be a
capital-intensive proposition, which will NOT create the vast amount of
competition that you erroneously keep assuming (but with vague words only, as
usual).
And then there is the other network in waiting... WiFi.
Hot spots. WiFi hotspots connect upstream to ... what Craig? Is there any
mysterious freebie going on here, as you are trying to imply? Think of WiFi
hotspots providing the same basic function, but with typically less range, than
your new 5G fixed links. What is the rest of that puzzle, Craig?
You have yet to describe competition of any meaningful amount, for home
broadband service.
Yup. Funny thing; those backhaul networks are already in place.
How do you think the Telcos deliver DSL service Bert?
Clueless comment. The telcos, which means Verizon here, just like the legacy
MVPDs, which means Cox here, have had to upgrade their infrastructure over many
years, with expanding amounts of fiber. Verizon, here, has essentially given up
on their legacy copper infrastructure, Craig, and replaced it with all fiber.
Who else is installing this infrastructure in every single neighborhood, to
give people more than one or two choices? What "backhauls are already in
place"? Do you think that the backhaul that was "in place" in 2002 or 2003,
when we first had access to DSL, is the same backhaul in use now, with FiOS?
You are hung up on the FACT that competitive options have been
limited BECAUSE of regulation.
Yet another example of Craig thinking backwards. I'm simply explaining reality.
You are talking fairy tales and libertarian formula-speak slogans. These local
broadband networks, available to households, are just like any other utility.
They are capital-intensive, they cannot compete sufficiently to allow market
forces to self-regulate them, and CONSEQUENTLY, regulation plays a part.
Regulation does not prevent more competition, Craig. Come up with some magical
Z-ray wireless technology, that can permit two dozen broadband providers to
co-exist in every neighborhood, and no one will prevent that extra competition
from materializing. THEN you might make the case that neutrality regulation
would not be needed. Until you show me a working Z-ray, you're just waving your
arms, Craig.
Bert
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