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Similar in Switzerland. There are multiple providers building FTTH infrastructure and wiring houses. But each house is only wired once and the government mandat
by lawl 6y ago
Similar in Switzerland. There are multiple providers building FTTH infrastructure and wiring houses. But each house is only wired once and the government mandates that if you build FTTH infrastructure, you have to rent out the (dark) fiber to anyone else under fair conditions (not quite sure if the gov sets the exact price or not).
This did quite a lot for competition here. Speeds went up and prices went down significantly. Small independent ISPs started renting the last mile and offering symmetric gbit at affordable prices which forced the old established ISPs to also drop prices and offer symmetric instead of artificially restricting upload speeds on fiber.