Our minitel is twisted pair — the pairs of copper wires that go into your home or business. Circuit-switched, metered, voice optimized networks are obsolete.
We’ve laid enough fiber to get to neptune and back but none of it has gotten to my basement.
We have a dumbell internet – high-band at the center and in the home, and narrow in the middle — with the telco.
IP is voice revenue eroding; you can’t protect the incumbents and get more bandwidth to the home. Protecting the incumbents /is/ what dampens innovation.
If phone companies started to account for their network at replacement value on Monday, they would be bankrupt by Friday.
The phone company is like the family farm. We let shoestores fail, but not phone companies.
QOTD: You can call french fries “freedom fries”, but the freedom fries are still sold in a restaurant, and listed on a “menu”
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