[ NNSquad ] Re: Interview with Bell Canada's Mirko Bibic

[Jonas Bosson <jonas@illuminet.se>]

Barry Gold skrev:
> Kyle Rosenthal wrote:
> > "Internet Congestion a Reality"
> >
> > Interview with Bell Canada's Mirko Bibic includes his perspective on 
> > the recent activity with the CRTC.
> >
> > http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/05/30/tech-qandabibic.html

In another country, Sweden, ISP access is getting cheaper. I can get a private 
10 mbps for about $20/month and a corporate 100 mbps peak with 8-16 IPs for 
about $200/month.

Upgrading ISP-equipment at national hubs is cheap as fibers are still good for 
more. You probably heard about the mother that got 50Gbps from her tech savy son 
recently... And we have a rise in bandwidth consumption just as in the rest of 
the world.

There is also enough fibers in the atlantic to cover all our needs for some time.

The magic is probably in the separation of market. We have had monopolies like 
AT&T for wires, but then they have been forced to open up accesspoints/racks, 
first as copper/DSL access to homes bridging for fibre alternatives. Local, 
separate, black fibre providers makes it easy for anyone to connect to 
switchpoints where you can peer or buy access though several providers.

When deciding on policies in telecom regulation, I find it good swap out the use 
the regular hierarchy images for a circle of peers connecting to the Internet.

Images have a powerful effect on how we reason about markets.

/jonas