Creating traditional competition in local infrastructure is difficult if not impossible for several reasons
- Last mile sections of the city will always have winner takes most (customers) situation, making the lines built by the other providers redundant and wasteful
- There are only so many communication lines you can put on poles, and underground, before the people start complaining about ugliness, and never ending construction.
I think a good approach for local communication infrastructure is ownership by community/local-goverment and private contract bidding on construction, maintanance and support
- Companies bid on building new infrastructure,
- Companies bid on running & maintaining existing infrastructure (usually a 2-3 year bid contract that sets fixed rate for all customers for 2-3 years). At the end of each contract a new bid goes out, but the same company can "win" the bid
- People in the community vote on the bids. The POLITICIANS don't get to pick the winning bid
- Last mile sections of the city will always have winner takes most (customers) situation, making the lines built by the other providers redundant and wasteful
- There are only so many communication lines you can put on poles, and underground, before the people start complaining about ugliness, and never ending construction.
I think a good approach for local communication infrastructure is ownership by community/local-goverment and private contract bidding on construction, maintanance and support
- Companies bid on building new infrastructure,
- Companies bid on running & maintaining existing infrastructure (usually a 2-3 year bid contract that sets fixed rate for all customers for 2-3 years). At the end of each contract a new bid goes out, but the same company can "win" the bid
- People in the community vote on the bids. The POLITICIANS don't get to pick the winning bid