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So... which countries have very good competition on wired Internet services without Government forcing competitors to share infrastructure, or otherwise subsidi
by vertex-four 10y ago
So... which countries have very good competition on wired Internet services without Government forcing competitors to share infrastructure, or otherwise subsidize competition? If free market capitalism had that result when applied to this market, you'd think at least one country would exist somewhere.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoI'm anti-free market. It's promises contradict human nature and history. So, I dont have any counterexample to that. ;)
- duncan_bayne 10y agoWhich promises?
- nickpsecurity 10y agoMaybe I should say the proponents of it in my country that ignore the monopolistic effects of land and IP ownership.
- monort 10y agoMost of Eastern Europe, particularly Romania. Small entrepreneurs were buying a fat uplink and then sharing it between several apartment complexes: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-romanias-internet-is-so-much-faster-than-americas https://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-romanias-internet-is-s...
- vertex-four 10y agoWho were they buying the uplink from? When the company that owns the cables is also a retail ISP, selling cheap uplink to another retail ISP is never a good idea. EDIT: From reading a bit, it looks like these neighbourhood ISPs managed to get off the ground and develop significant clout before the telecoms companies managed to start providing consumer retail broadband services?