Levers to Intensify Broadband Competition -- Part II Telco Upgrades

[Commentary] Given the current market, what are the appropriate government levers to intensify competition at this part of the cycle? Earlier, I explored spectrum policy. Now let’s look at the second leverage point; improving the economics of a telco upgrade. We made a number of proposals at the national level in the National Broadband Plan, but frankly, cities have greater leverage to improve the math than the federal government. This has become clear through the Google Fiber effort. Google has turned out to be the cop that has caused the greatest level of defection.