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Building and running an ISP is the easy part. Being allowed to do so (regulation/facilities access) and making money are the hard parts.
by amazon_not 11y ago
Building and running an ISP is the easy part. Being allowed to do so (regulation/facilities access) and making money are the hard parts.
- kuschku 11y agoWell, at least in Germany that is a lot easier – big ISPs have to rent you their lines at just above cost if the lines are older than 2 years. Which led to people often having dozens or more ISPs to choose from.
- exar0815 11y agoGood one. If you are lucky enough to be in a city. The majority of the cabling and infrasturcure was built by the Deutsche Post, when it was still government-owned. Now nearly all of that belongs to the Telekom, which have a massive tmonopoly, even though they have to rent their cabling too other companys for a low price. Problem is, there are very low infrastructure costs for everyone at the moment, leading to a very very fierce price battle at the internet market, which leaves no money for improvements of the infrastructure. In short, in Germany many people skipped from Modem/ISDN to LTE because they had no other choice for 15 years than to stay with Dial up connections.