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Please 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
by briandear 9y ago
Please 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 9y agoI'm in France countryside too and we have a lot of different ISP
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 9y 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 9y agoDon't know, sorry
- KozmoNau7 9y 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 9y 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.