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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by aerotwelve on Thursday February 07, 2019 @01:55PM (#19107451)
> IMHO the best way to do this is to force telcos to give each other access to their infrastructure at a reasonable price.

I believe this is what we in America had with dial-up and DSL up until about 2005, when DSL was reclassified as a title I information service. I seem to recall having a hell of a lot more ISP choices/competition in those days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling

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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by rayiner on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:06PM (#19107531)
Yeah, you had lots of competition among DSL ISPs that got loops at cut-rate wholesale prices, along with wholesale prices so low it killed any incentive to invest in DSL networks. See: http://www.pff.org/events/eventpowerpoints/022207BrusselsCom...
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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by Nasrudith on Thursday February 07, 2019 @02:25PM (#19107693)
Yeah but they just plain don't like to invest in infastructure period. It is an expense which takes a long time to pay off and publicly traded corporations are heavily pressured to short-termism.
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Re:Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless by toast0 on Thursday February 07, 2019 @07:02PM (#19109945)
On the other hand Pacific bell/SBC routinely sold consumer internet plans at under the wholesale cost. So the wholesale costs were also too high.
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