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In an age where many don't have a second choice for an ISP Where ? You have trouble in the US about that but in Europe we have plenty of competition
by ttoinou 8y ago
In an age where many don't have a second choice for an ISP
Where ? You have trouble in the US about that but in Europe we have plenty of competition
- briandear 8y agoPlease stop saying “Europe has plenty of competition.” I am in France and have exactly 1 ISP where I live. Not everyone in Europe is in a big city. And even in big cities, not every ISP is available at your house even though they advertise that they are in the area.
- ttoinou 8y agoI'm in France countryside too and we have a lot of different ISP
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoSo, how exactly do you have access to a lot of different ISPs? 1. There are a lot of competing networks in the ground. Like, there are five cables reaching your house owned by five different ISPs that you can choose from. 2. There is one cable reaching your house, but the owner doesn't care too much about making money themselves, so they allow competitors to use it at a price where they can compete with the owner. 3. There is one cable reaching your house, but the government regulates the price at which the owner must rent it out to competitors without any restrictions on what the competitor may transmit over it.
- ttoinou 8y agoDon't know, sorry
- KozmoNau7 8y agoI'll help you, it's #3. (I work at a former state monopoly telco/ISP, specifically with wholesale business, where we sell other service providers access to our networks, as mandated by government regulation)
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y agoWell, you should find out, here is the website of your regulatory agency: https://www.arcep.fr/ https://www.arcep.fr/ But don't be surprised if you find that the competition is a result of a sort of network neutrality regulation.