Re:ISP announces 86% slowdown “in line with others”
by indemnity on Sunday June 27, 2021 @10:00PM
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We had a similar shitshow with the local incumbent in NZ, until LLU was passed in 2006, with a split of the monopoly operator into two separate retail + wholesale and network companies.
Went from shitty 256kbps ADSL to 1gps FTTH, with 2gbps and 4gbps options on the horizon.
The usual conservative suspects were complaining about interference with property rights, undermining investor confidence, unnecessary expenditure for the size of the nation, etc.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/telecom-ordered-to-open-...
None of the doom and gloom predictions came to pass.
And now, of course, everyone loves it, and our household monthly bandwidth used has gone from about 100-200GB to terabytes with all the streaming and Linux ISO downloading.
Re:ISP announces 86% slowdown “in line with others”
by tolien on Sunday June 27, 2021 @12:04PM
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In the UK the wholesale access part applies even to FTTC/P, so you can get fibre all the way to your door operated by Openreach and connected to BT Wholesale but with packets being passed to your choice of ISP for internet access.
There are some additional requirements - I think in the early days you had to take a modem from BT and there’s a minimum commitment (used to be 18 months).
but then fiber came along, and Verizon vs FCC (2002) slowly made it's way through courts, got to the supreme court, and the supreme court sided with Verizon, who said fiber was so fancy, so costly, so new, that they required a monopoly. the Supreme Court overruled Congress & upturned the Tecommimications Act & have fiber a local monopoly, and things in the US have been getting slowly worse ever since.