she said.Hayes said RCRC looked at other broadband deployment models before landing on open access. The electric cooperative model, a hit in Mississippi , wouldn't have panned out for all of California's most rural counties. But in the end, it made little sense to pursue the open access concept with a blank canvas, so to speak. "Still, Hayes pointed out that the goal of open access isn't to "knock anyone out of the way," big companies included. On the contrary, open access has the attractive element of not requiring any company to pay for infrastructure.

Source: Washington Post May 09, 2022 20:55 UTC