The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers

Re:The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers by dsr_ on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:51PM (#23657957)

We used to have a similar situation in the US: ILECs (the no-longer-monopoly telephone companies) were required to make lines available to CLECs (competitors) for a particular cost.

What happened was that the ILECs all managed to come up with the same excuses: sorry, no lines available in that office. And, mysteriously, working CLEC lines would stop working, and it would be blamed on a "bad cable", but there wouldn't be a spare cable to switch to... and the ILEC had just installed a customer.

Regulation needs to be enforced.

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Re:The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers by icedchai on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:07PM (#23658388)

Then they switched to fiber which didn't have these rules, and let the copper plant rot away.

I had the local ILEC repair my home POTS line so many times, I finally gave up and switched to VOIP. Now a year of service costs me less than a month used to...

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Re:The War on Upstart Fiber Internet Providers by elcomet on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:15PM (#23658089)

Yeah. That's the role of our public regulator, the ARCEP. I believe they have power to fine or give sanctions to companies that don't comply with regulations, which seems essential.

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