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I hope I'm being overly-suspicious, but I always wonder: Who are they going to buy transit from? An ISP they just denied a profitable monopoly? It would be the
by msla 9y ago
I hope I'm being overly-suspicious, but I always wonder: Who are they going to buy transit from? An ISP they just denied a profitable monopoly? It would be the simplest thing in the world, it seems to me, for the ISPs in the region to refuse to sell bandwidth to the city that just beat them.
- taoistextremist 9y agoI'm not too savvy on this stuff, so correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't they build out to the nearest internet exchange point? I thought those were typically open for anybody to hook up to.
- ajbourg 9y agoTransit providers are usually _much_ more competitive than last mile.
- burkemw3 9y agoI have read here that the commercial market has competition [0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926613 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15926613
- monocasa 9y agoTier II last miles like Comcast weren't going to give them transit anyway.