HAHAHA! The NWO Internet2 Plan is ruined: Test Selling "Last Mile" Fiber to Homeowners Under Way

[joeblow]

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture ... -fiber.ars

Test Selling "Last Mile" Fiber to Homeowners Under Way in Canada

Ars Technica is covering an interesting pilot program taking place in Ottawa, CA. 400 homes are being outfitted with fiber optic cables, however, the "last mile" of fiber is going to be sold outright to the homeowners rather than providing internet at a monthly fee. "In the future, it could become commonplace for homes to come with 'tails'. These customer-owned, fiber-optic connections would link them to a network peering point. Without the expense of rolling out last mile infrastructure to every home, many more ISPs could afford to serve a given neighborhood by running wiring to the peering point, leading to more competition and lower prices. Perhaps best of all, the growth of customer-owned fiber could make debates over "open access" and network neutrality moot, as robust telecom competition should prevent the worst of the monopolistic behavior exhibited by telco and cable incumbents. "

[K-Sensor]

What neighbourhood?  wealthy, middle class, poor, or combination of previous?

[joeblow]

It's not explicitly stated, but check out this little tidbit:

Customer-owned fiber

Customer-owned fiber may offer a way out of this regulatory morass. It's hard to believe today but, as Google's Derek Slater points out, there was a time when the phone company owned the entire telephone network, including the wires inside our homes and the phone on our desks. Shifting the demarcation point to the outside of our homes created a vibrant market for customer premises equipment: not just telephones, but modems, fax machines, answering machines, and other specialized gear. With customer-owned fiber, the demarcation point would be shifted even further from the customer. That would once again mean more responsibility for the customer, but with offsetting benefits that could flow from greater competition.

Slater is working with Tim Wu on a forthcoming paper that discusses the customer-owned fiber model. Under their proposal, each customer would pay the up-front costs of stringing fiber to her own home. The fiber would terminate at a carrier-neutral colocation facility, where a variety of ISPs would have a presence. Because customers, rather than any given ISP, would own the "last mile" to the customer's house, many more ISPs could afford to compete on an equal footing for customers' business.

[K-Sensor]

Sounds good.

[mobes]

I disagree big time. I normally don't do this, but I've started watching TV again, but strictly from an analytical perspective. Based on what I have seen, there is an insurmountable amount of evidence to prove that internet2 is already here, and the mainstream media is pushing it subliminally. I think what we are missing here is that ever since most of us have tuned out of television, we have no idea of what deep-rooted propaganda the public is being exposed to. I have decided to forego my mainstream and alternative analysis of 9/11 until the week after. I have only watched TV for one day and already I'm as pissed off as hell. Sure it may be nice to think there is somewhat of a "victory", but that doesn't mean that the internet will stay free and unregulated. For crying out loud, our very means of communication that makes our research and exchange of research so successful is under attack!!

Yes, most definitely I will address this in my next show!  :!:  :!:  :!: