by
ankh » Sat Aug 04, 2018 9:08 am
I hope this is good news:
hat tip to Soylent News
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| FCC Gives Google Fiber and New ISPs Faster Access to Utility Poles
| from the invest-in-cable-ties dept.
| posted by chromas on Friday August 03, @21:21 (News)
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https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/08/03/1056221
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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the [0]following story:
The Federal Communications Commission today [1]approved new rules that could let Google Fiber and other new Internet service providers gain faster access to utility poles.
The FCC's One Touch Make Ready (OTMR) [2]rules will let companies attach wires to utility poles without waiting for the other users of the pole to move their own wires. Google Fiber [3]says its deployment has stalled in multiple cities because Comcast and AT&T take a long time to get poles ready for new attachers. One Touch Make Ready rules let new attachers make all of the necessary wire adjustments themselves.
Comcast [4]urged the FCC to "reject 'one-touch make-ready' proposals, which inure solely to the benefit of new entrants while unnecessarily risking harm to existing attachers and their customers."
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rejected this argument, saying that startups are unnecessarily delayed when they have to wait for incumbent ISPs before hanging wires.
Discuss this story at:
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid ... 03/1056221
Links:
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... ity-poles/
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https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments ... 3230A1.pdf
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https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments ... 2544A1.pdf
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https://arstechnica.com/information-tec ... nashville/
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https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/1071723375 ... 0FINAL.pdf
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