The common carriage laws are some of the most important laws for the future of this nation.
One possible solution is public maintained networks which operators could use. Every carrier would be a virtual network overlaid on top of the public physical infrastructure.
The problem with this, of course, is that some very large companies have spent quite a bit of money building out these networks and thus simply nationalizing them would be unfair.
I contend that an amicable solution to this problem is a fund to help the top 100 metro areas build ubiquitous public backbones and sell access at an agreed upon (but fair) rate. In reality, there may be very little that any one can do to disrupt big telcos. It is simply a difficult and slow moving market. You'd need something like LightSquared to really have a lasting impact.
Time will tell if they get their spectrum swap; here's hoping.
One possible solution is public maintained networks which operators could use. Every carrier would be a virtual network overlaid on top of the public physical infrastructure.
The problem with this, of course, is that some very large companies have spent quite a bit of money building out these networks and thus simply nationalizing them would be unfair.
I contend that an amicable solution to this problem is a fund to help the top 100 metro areas build ubiquitous public backbones and sell access at an agreed upon (but fair) rate. In reality, there may be very little that any one can do to disrupt big telcos. It is simply a difficult and slow moving market. You'd need something like LightSquared to really have a lasting impact.
Time will tell if they get their spectrum swap; here's hoping.