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It was the same thing with Google Fiber in the US, Comcast/AT&T sit on their asses for years and then suddenly when there’s competition they rush to launch giga
by wlesieutre 6y ago
It was the same thing with Google Fiber in the US, Comcast/AT&T sit on their asses for years and then suddenly when there’s competition they rush to launch gigabit service in the same cities as Google.
- rayiner 6y agoIsn't that exactly how you'd expect competition to work? (Note, neither of those companies are "government sanctioned monopolies" anywhere in the U.S. They may be a "de facto" monopoly in any given place.)
- eslaught 6y agoAt least in the US, they're "government sanctioned" in the sense that the local city government may have signed a contract that gives them exclusivity in certain neighborhoods. I've been told "that's Comcast's neighborhood" by a competing ISP in the past. If you mean that it's not state or federal, that's right (as far as I know).
- AtlasBarfed 6y agoAnd now they are rushing 10Gbit service with 5G and starlink coming to eat their lunch.