- Washington Post recently carried an article on the economic benefits of rural broadband on Benoit Felten’s blog – BSA] Community FTTH networks: Structural Options
- See also his section on Community Networks
- Do jobs follow broadband access
Fiber to the Home business model
The pilot project has 4 objectives:
(a) To validate a market based solution to network neutrality, rather than using regulation, through the customer owning the last mile;
(b) To validate a private sector funded business model for deployment of fiber to the home designed for low take up rates and in a market already served by incumbent cable and telephone companies;
(c)To validate true facilities based competition by the customer owning the last mile and being able to connect to a service provider of their choice at a central POP; and
(d) To validate a new way to reduce green house gas emissions through "carbon rewards rather than carbon taxes"
