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Most of Eastern Europe, particularly Romania. Small entrepreneurs were buying a fat uplink and then sharing it between several apartment complexes: https://mot
by monort 10y ago
Most 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?