Sure you can. You can grant ownership of the underlying cables to the company willing to build out the network, essentially granting them guaranteed utility profits even if a competitor springs up via the Open Access that you can mandate as part of the deal.
When DSL was oh-so-briefly deregulated, small towns might not have been enjoying the (relatively) high-speed bonanza their neighbors were shortly offered, but they were still getting DSL (inasmuch as they physically could) and AT&T was still profiting off the network, even when competitors were offering the higher-margin services over AT&T lines.
It worked just fine for voice services and it worked wonderfully for the short period of time it applied to data over that same network.
There's no reason it wouldn't work just as well if applied to data over fiber or coax or whatever else.
Sure you can. You can grant ownership of the underlying cables to the company willing to build out the network, essentially granting them guaranteed utility profits even if a competitor springs up via the Open Access that you can mandate as part of the deal.
When DSL was oh-so-briefly deregulated, small towns might not have been enjoying the (relatively) high-speed bonanza their neighbors were shortly offered, but they were still getting DSL (inasmuch as they physically could) and AT&T was still profiting off the network, even when competitors were offering the higher-margin services over AT&T lines.
It worked just fine for voice services and it worked wonderfully for the short period of time it applied to data over that same network.
There's no reason it wouldn't work just as well if applied to data over fiber or coax or whatever else.