Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any...
by pjc50 on Thursday March 30, 2017 @05:38AM
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The US tends to have local monopolies; in order to change ISP you need to move house, or maybe state.
This is because the national telco monopoly was broken up early into horizontal companies, rather than the "local loop unbundling" system in the UK (and I think other European countries).
LLU is a little strange because the lines are still owned by one company, so there's no choice of who does the maintenance and installation work (it's always BT OpenReach in the UK). But you do get a choice of what happens to your packets after they reach the DSLAM.
Re:You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any...
by bigbugbag on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:06AM
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LLU is a regulation to break existing monopolies and allow some degree of competition to happen because an unhealthy internet impedes the country economy.
This is because the national telco monopoly was broken up early into horizontal companies, rather than the "local loop unbundling" system in the UK (and I think other European countries).
LLU is a little strange because the lines are still owned by one company, so there's no choice of who does the maintenance and installation work (it's always BT OpenReach in the UK). But you do get a choice of what happens to your packets after they reach the DSLAM.