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To: JayPC who wrote (22811)	6/1/2000 8:16:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Thanks, Jay. I'm reading the article in hard copy form with one eye, while typing to you using the other one to look at my screen... Ray D. sent it to me, earlier. I've always been of the opinion that "the government" should keep its grimy hands off of public works, where for any given industry the incumbents have been privately or stockholder owned. I don't know about the wisdom of this belief anymore. The roads and highways, the bridges, the air corridors, my Beloved Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.. my wonderful Brooklyn and Verrazzano Bridges, all done with government funds. I use them all, and never gripe about them one bit, septin' when I'm late and there aren't enough lanes in the darn things. The origin of the expression "turnpike effect" happened here for a reason. What about public rights of way, and the government stepping in to lay some light roads along thoroughfares and back streets, alike? A section of Palo Alto is doing it, some small parts of Canada are doing it (albeit experimentally, with IETF and NG Internet monitoring). There are numerous examples of this being done around the country by munies that partnered up with power companies and energy concerns. And there are a few bold contractors who dare to go up against the tide, and who may very well get their asses handed to them without ample scale to help bring down unit costs, but they're doing it now, too. Heck, even Bell South is now claiming to have the largest FTTH in the nation, and other BOCs will be doing it, soon, rest assured. They need to learn how to manager their risk, and get rid of some guys who still have their hands on the Morse Keys, who are still listening to the telegraph clackers. But they will not be doing it fast enough. In Stockholm, Sweden the government has vowed to bring 5 Mb/s to each and every citizen's home attached to a new national fiber optic backbone which is also a part of the plan, as a matter of national security. That's the gated data rate (5 Mb/s) up to the demarc. Only the payload speeds are regulated, probably for the purpose of enabling them to conserve on limited supplies of bandwidth, upstream. Remember the implosion effect, when too many broadband users come on line without the necessary upstream capacity and links being in place yet? Sucking sounds reverse their directions and things pop and break. I'm going to have to think about this government angle some more. There may be something to this approach, after all. FAC