NCTA Agrees Title II Virtuous Cycle Is Working

Re:NCTA Agrees Title II Virtuous Cycle Is Working by otoburb on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:30PM (#14539689)

>>The capital city of Sofia is brimming with ISPs -- last time I checked, at least 15 companies with good coverage, fiber, and very affordable ($7 to $20 for 100Mbps ingress and egress) connection services.

Sounds like a domestic sector ripe for consolidation. I hope that doesn't happen for the sake of the consumers, but that seems like an overwhelmingly large number of players for a total market size of only 1.7M subscribers[1], which is even smaller from the census figures of roughly 500K households.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia#Demographics

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Re:NCTA Agrees Title II Virtuous Cycle Is Working by pdimitar on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:59PM (#14539999)

Some of the bigger players have been buying smaller ones but in general the sector almost hasn't changed because the consumers switch away if somebody slacks a lot -- the tricks of "we're in a merge and you may experience some disruptions in the process" and a lot of other corporate lingo absolutely don't fly around here. People just smile and switch away.

The mobile operators also pushed a lot for consolidation several years ago but it seems they didn't have the leverage (and the money) to make it happen. Thank the gods for that.

So far it's all good, we're enjoying healthy competition and extremely good ISPs.

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