Comments on: Broadband Policy Lessons for 2010 http://www.muniwireless.com/2010/01/05/broadband-policy-lessons-for-2010/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=broadband-policy-lessons-for-2010 Citywide WiFi, smart grid, enterprise wireless, public safety, mobile apps Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Larry Karisny http://www.muniwireless.com/2010/01/05/broadband-policy-lessons-for-2010/#comment-40293 Larry Karisny Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:03:01 +0000 http://www.muniwireless.com/?p=12225#comment-40293 I appreciate your policy knowledge in both the public and private sectors. I might add that in the US when we say public this means government owned and private we mean corporate owned. I know in many European counties this means just the opposite. In my previous article: Year-end Review: Economic Recovery Through Municipal Wireless Networks I spoke of the real world requirements of public-private shared networks. This of course is from and need and technical view knowing that policy could and does stop progress of these services. I found when studying broadband stimulus grants awards that the federal public sector is realizing that they are good at one time capital support but not necessarily supporting sustainable broadband models. In fact, as I review many federal stimulus grants they require the supporting private sector partner to assure that the recurring network costs are supported by their sustainable business model. It seems that the public sector may be beginning to understand that they shouldn’t be in the network management business. Coming from the communication deregulation days in the US, is saw a lot of competition drive the building of our global fiber optic infrastructures when there was available capital. We are not in that position today and this is why we need to find some way to share all existing municipal, county and state public and private communication infrastructures. Different decisions for different times. We all know what to do but you are right about policy. The wrong policy decision can kill the best of intentions. I appreciate your policy knowledge in both the public and private sectors. I might add that in the US when we say public this means government owned and private we mean corporate owned. I know in many European counties this means just the opposite. In my previous article: Year-end Review: Economic Recovery Through Municipal Wireless Networks I spoke of the real world requirements of public-private shared networks. This of course is from and need and technical view knowing that policy could and does stop progress of these services.

I found when studying broadband stimulus grants awards that the federal public sector is realizing that they are good at one time capital support but not necessarily supporting sustainable broadband models. In fact, as I review many federal stimulus grants they require the supporting private sector partner to assure that the recurring network costs are supported by their sustainable business model. It seems that the public sector may be beginning to understand that they shouldn’t be in the network management business.

Coming from the communication deregulation days in the US, is saw a lot of competition drive the building of our global fiber optic infrastructures when there was available capital. We are not in that position today and this is why we need to find some way to share all existing municipal, county and state public and private communication infrastructures. Different decisions for different times. We all know what to do but you are right about policy. The wrong policy decision can kill the best of intentions.

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