I recently moved to Brisbane, Australia. The apartment building I rent in was advertised as NBN (public fibre) connected. Turns out, it’s vendor locked to a sp

I recently moved to Brisbane, Australia. The apartment building I rent in was advertised as NBN (public fibre) connected. Turns out, it’s vendor locked to a specific ISP, iiNet, which wouldn’t be a problem if they offered static ips but they don’t. Its kinda funny because another sub company, internode, of their parent company, TPG, does offer static ips for vendor locked FTTB but it wasn’t offered in the building. It gets weird for various other reasons (convoluted inbound tcp/25/80/443 unblocking process, static ips). But the larger point is that ISPs largely control the internet and frequently do scummy things. in Australia it’s quickly becoming a very select vendor market and monopolising behaviour is occurring to the point where there’s very few decent ‘neutral’ isps left. Here there’s laws to prevent complete monopolisation of media but I don’t think the same exists for networks comms, and I fear that this place is going to quickly end up owned by a few select companies that will effectively be able to do what they want, without intervention. Maybe this sounds grim but I needed the rant