Google Fiber beats AT&T in Nashville, wins vote for quicker expansion

AT&T likely to sue Nashville over rule providing quick access to utility poles.

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ten91[/url]":1s9qkazo]Calling it now.
If this gets approved, AT&T's service is gonna start failing all over Nashville and they'll blame Google despite some of the failings happening in areas where Google isn't even working on.

And if AT&T gets an injunction stopping this, one of their VPs will write another condescending blog post mocking Google for continuing to underestimate how difficult it is to provide broadband service.

 

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Random John Smith Guy[/url]":eab0s0vp]Perhaps we should just have the government seize all the poles. I'm pretty sure that the government can maintain the poles if they can run the roads, and allow fair access to anyone.

Maybe it would be even better if the government owned the poles, underground conduits, and the fiber to each residence and business and sold access (at cost) to ISPs that could resell service. Then each location would have a single access point to maintain and could choose from any number of ISPs.

This is kind of what it's like in Canada. The CRTC requires the big telecoms to make their last mile infrastructure available for lease to third party ISPs. Unfortunately, the big incumbents have continuously pushed for more and more favourable/onerous (depending on your POV) lease terms, such that third party ISPs have never really carved out more than a niche segment of the market.