[olug] Google Fiber home Internet sevice RFI

[Sam Tetherow]

Yes, but Google is not a government entity. 

Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless

James Ringler wrote:
> Sam Tetherow wrote:
>> There isn't any state law that I am aware of that prohibits you from 
>> laying your own infrastructure.  There are hoops that have to be 
>> jumped through to get ROW from the municipality, but part of the 
>> deregulation of telco services was for just this purpose.
>>
>> I know for instance that Three Rivers Telephone "coppered over" Qwest 
>> in Ainsworth.  Unite fiber in Lincoln has their own fiber loop that 
>> is outside of Windstream's network.  Time Warner's cable network is 
>> outside of Windstream in Lincoln, yet both offer voice and internet.  
>> I also know that for a while Lincoln was trying to find another cable 
>> provider to compete against TW.  The reason that it doesn't happen 
>> very often is that it is horribly expensive to do it and if you don't 
>> have a captive audience (the only provider) it is hard to make the 
>> numbers work.
>>
>> Sam Tetherow
>> Sandhills Wireless
>
>
> They passed a law about 10 years ago that prohibited municipal 
> entities from becoming an ISP.    Windstream and Time Warner lobbied 
> for the law since TW was in the process of launching Road Runner.   At 
> the time, LES had the entire city laced with fiber and TW was worried 
> that if LES could light it up, TW would lose their back side.   The 
> law never was lifted off the books.  At that time we were working on 
> fiber to the desktop in Waverly..  since they were booming with 
> industry development.   Our plans were quickly shattered
>
> Here's a link that shows Nebraska being on the ban.
> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/municipal-fiber-needs-more-fdr-localism-fewer-state-bans.ars 
>
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