FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule
This is bad. I love google fiber and see that what they are trying to do is valid but when one utility company touches another company's facilities it compromises the other facility and makes it vulnerable for service disruption.But the regulation to ban or allow should not come at the Federal level. It should be governed by the utility pole owner.In NYC for example con Ed owns a large number of poles. And then Verizon owns the next number of poles. Verizon and other utility companies pay ConEd based on how high their utility is placed. If it's a Verizon pole, Verizon will put their facility on the very top and spectrum will put their facility on the lower part.This means that another utility company cannot just come and move someone else's facility around.