Own your last mile

Google Public Policy Blog: What if you could own your Internet connection?

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/customer-owned-fiber.ars/

Here's another story of a community who's taking their home network connection into their own hands. A private contractor is building out a fiber network from over 400 homes in Ottawa, Canada to a colo facility where any ISP can set up equiptment and sell internet service to these consumers. This will give the homeonwer the ability to buy their internet from any service provider they like, that's available in the area. More providers means more competition, which invariably means lower prices and bettter/faster innovations. As well as the fact that we won't have to deal with asshats such as Time Warner or Comcast cable systems.

If we all had this ran to our homes, the collective price would be low indeed. Now we just need to work on co-op'ing the cellular providers we'd be set.