A follow-up on the reflections on UK Fiber

Seems I'm talking only about the UK these days (but don't worry, there's things brewing in France and my little fingers tell me we may here about other fiber countries in the coming days.) Anyway, just a quick note to tell you that the excellent Keith McMahon of Telebusillis may have stopped blogging there, but he's as active as ever blogging on the Telco 2.0 blog.

He's posted an excellent and thoughtful analysis (and not just because he's quoting me!) of the BSG event under the title Prospects for FTTH in Britain: Considered Slow. As always with Keith, it's a long piece, and it needs some concentration to grasp the subtleties, but that's how we like it. I particularly like the penultimate paragraph which echoes some of my hopes and/or concerns, so I'll quote it in full here:

OFCOM, DBERR, BT and many other people, mostly in London, are thinking purely in terms of a massive national network managed by one regulated organisation. They can’t decide what its scope-and-scale should be, who should finance it, how it should repay them, or on what terms it should deal with others. The Telco 2.0 solution is to turn away from the idea that the fibre build must be one ring to rule them all; instead, what kind of a solution would work best for an incremental deployment (like this post), encouraging community, public-sector, or independent business actors to contribute?

Also posted on www.fiberevolution.com