If this case holds, even if it emboldens others across the country to follow suit, I don't see anything happening materially for quite some time. I've been involved to some extent with other groundbreaking decisions which have opened up other venues where T and the ILECs have been a party, and I can tell you that there is no end to the stonewalling, foot dragging and mutually agreed upon decisions that must be reached, to the smallest levels of minutiae, before the RF can ever meet the photon. Without such detail, service level agreements could never take hold, much less service creation in the first place.
Of course, the strategy that they may be forced to employ, for their own benefit, is to accelerate such matters. I say this because delays may impact their own rollouts, as well. But I don't know what those factors are yet, and what their primary strategy would be in that event, at this time.
If it holds, and if T holds true to form, then we may see the following take place, as one possible scenario.
Beyond the arm wrestling stages, there are then the engineering and implementation processes that all parties must agree to (which must be specified by the encroacher to within the parameters that can be supported by the primary, which for all intents and purposes have not been defined anywhere, as far as I know), in order to make it all work. These are far from being trivial matters, if it's going to be an across-the-board form of openness for all comers.
And what else could it be? I don't think that any decision could favor only one or two interloping service providers (which might actually be very feasible at this time without too much fuss... but that would be discriminatory to the other providers), if it did hold fast. It would have to be all-encompassing, unless the decision itself is such that it could be cited for being discriminatory.
And then there is the subscription transition, the migration, itself, dislodging extant users from their existing habits and comfort zones. It would be a while, again, if it holds. |
