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> highly developed countries like the US or Germany In Germany this is due to regulation. Deutsche Telekom has no incentive to lay cables, as they will have to
by MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
> highly developed countries like the US or Germany
In Germany this is due to regulation. Deutsche Telekom has no incentive to lay cables, as they will have to share the infrastructure with competitors at a price that makes doing so unattractive.
- kalleboo 6y agoSweden has the same regulation but we got widespread fiber anyway
- MrBuddyCasino 6y ago> the same regulation As in, you compared the regulated prices?
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- kalleboo 6y agoIt's been a while since I lived in Sweden but I didn't know anyone with fiber from the incumbent, there were lots and lots of national and local competitors (power companies, municipal networks, other telcos, internet startups, local co-ops)
- Havoc 6y ago>Deutsche Telekom has no incentive to lay cables, as they will have to share the infrastructure with competitors at a price that makes doing so unattractive. Seems like a pretty severe failure of government if they actively disincentivised investment into fiber tech...
- bifrost 6y agoThat is what governments do, make infrastructure more expensive to build.
- anoncake 6y agoNo, it's due to privatization. The Bundespost would simply lay cables because they're needed, without any silly market games.
- MrBuddyCasino 6y agoThe Bundespost would have you rent a slow, outdated modem and disallowed connecting any devices from the private market. Source: this is was actually happened when they still had the monopoly.
- anoncake 6y agoIt did, yes, but that policy could have easily been changed without privatization. Private companies often had the same policy ("Routerzwang") until the state stopped them. Whereas misaligned incentives are a direct consequence of trying to manage a natural monopoly using markets.