- Wireless ISPs often have difficulty
obtaining backbone bandwidth in wholesale quantities - especially in
rural areas, where it can run as high as $325 per Mbps per month
- Backbone providers are refusing to provide
access outside of "NFL cities," making it uneconomical to offer UBB in
many areas
- Ironically, this issue is referred to on
the Hill as "Special Access" -- when in fact it is perfectly ordinary
wholesale access!
- Backbones must be required (or, better,
incented) to open POPs
- If upstream and downstream issues are
solved, UBB can be UBBiquitous
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