Re:More than 800 startups sign letter objecting to plans to ...
by rlpb on Friday April 28, 2017 @12:32PM
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> In a perfect world competing infrastructure companies should spring up out of thin air due to infinite availability of capital...
You wouldn't need an infrastructure company, nor would you need a big capital expenditure. The point is that the infrastructure would be state-owned and available on a non-discriminatory basis already. If demand exists, a competitor could bootstrap by buying fractional bandwidth from the last mile infrastructure, fractional bandwidth from a peering provider, and connecting the two.
The problem at the moment is that huge capital expenditure is required because I need the majority of a street to be interested before digging it up becomes economically viable. This problem would go away.
In a perfect world competing infrastructure companies should spring up out of thin air due to infinite availability of capital and an endless supply of engineers to implement all of this. But real markets have to operate within the confines of a finite world and limited resources. Results and outcomes matter.