toma_alimosh
Also known as "Myke Hunt"
Woohoo, just found out today that Waterfront Toronto, the project to restore and improve Toronto's waterfront has decided as one of its sub-projects to build an Open Optical Communications Network at Toronto's waterfront. As well as building a wireless access network in the same area as well. I'm salivating over the idea right now.
I just wish the city of Toronto and the adjoining regions of the GTA would wake up and see how messed up the communications infrastructure in Toronto is and why we MUST build an open network to drive the communications market from an oligopoly into monopolistic competition.
Only then will we have as high speeds and as low prices as Europe, because as it stands, we're screwed over for internet access, TV and telephone. If a project like the condominium project in Quebec ever came to life here, we can finally say "Fuck Off" to both Bell and Rogers.
And if you don't know what an Open Network is, well, the concept is simple: It's a business model for communications in which the owners of a telecommunications distribution network (physical wires) are separate from the company (or companies) that maintain that network and are also separate from the companies that provide services through the network (internet, tv, phone, video conferencing, etc).
This saves a lot of cost by service providers who often have to rely on existing networks, such as cable or phone lines, to distribute their services in the last mile. Not only are those networks slow, but they're also owned by companies that offer the same services themselves, thus, they charge their competitors who want to use their network extra money, in order to eliminate competition by keeping their prices much lower than anyone else.
By having a private netowrk for last-mile distribution (free logistics, not controlled by a service provider), many small competitors can go head-to-head with the communications hot-shots of today (mostly Bell and Rogers in these parts). This will collapse the last big barriers of entry into the industry and encourage competition. Thus, we will have more providers competing with each other on both price and quality = lower prices and higher speeds.
Does anyone here live near such a network? And what do you think about it in terms of services and such, and how much you pay for them? I'm mainly asking our members in Sweden about this, since that's where these types of networks are most predominant.
And if you don't know about these sort of projects and want to find out more, you can read up on the following and google the rest:
http://www.canadaconnects.ca/education/main/1110/
http://www.metronetiq.com/archives/2007/09/on_the_cutting.html
http://www.packetfront.com/
I just wish the city of Toronto and the adjoining regions of the GTA would wake up and see how messed up the communications infrastructure in Toronto is and why we MUST build an open network to drive the communications market from an oligopoly into monopolistic competition.
Only then will we have as high speeds and as low prices as Europe, because as it stands, we're screwed over for internet access, TV and telephone. If a project like the condominium project in Quebec ever came to life here, we can finally say "Fuck Off" to both Bell and Rogers.
And if you don't know what an Open Network is, well, the concept is simple: It's a business model for communications in which the owners of a telecommunications distribution network (physical wires) are separate from the company (or companies) that maintain that network and are also separate from the companies that provide services through the network (internet, tv, phone, video conferencing, etc).
This saves a lot of cost by service providers who often have to rely on existing networks, such as cable or phone lines, to distribute their services in the last mile. Not only are those networks slow, but they're also owned by companies that offer the same services themselves, thus, they charge their competitors who want to use their network extra money, in order to eliminate competition by keeping their prices much lower than anyone else.
By having a private netowrk for last-mile distribution (free logistics, not controlled by a service provider), many small competitors can go head-to-head with the communications hot-shots of today (mostly Bell and Rogers in these parts). This will collapse the last big barriers of entry into the industry and encourage competition. Thus, we will have more providers competing with each other on both price and quality = lower prices and higher speeds.
Does anyone here live near such a network? And what do you think about it in terms of services and such, and how much you pay for them? I'm mainly asking our members in Sweden about this, since that's where these types of networks are most predominant.
And if you don't know about these sort of projects and want to find out more, you can read up on the following and google the rest:
http://www.canadaconnects.ca/education/main/1110/
http://www.metronetiq.com/archives/2007/09/on_the_cutting.html
http://www.packetfront.com/