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Not exactly the same. In the US, there are multiple Cable and Phone companies, but they basically carve up the country into regions, so they don't compete with
by thayne 4y ago
Not exactly the same. In the US, there are multiple Cable and Phone companies, but they basically carve up the country into regions, so they don't compete with each other in the same region. And in the US the cable/phone companies typically sell directly to consumers rather than having an intermediate ISPs that rent the infrastructure. But there are some similarities, and from the original article it sounds like the infrastructure ISPs want to be more like the US.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoDSL service in the US can be provided by independent ISPs. The telcos killed them off by letting their copper wires rot so useful broadband isn't achievable.
- zekica 4y agoDLS on loops longer than 1000ft/300m is not competitive at all today. 1000ft can give you 70/20Mbps with VDSL2 (dedicated bandwidth of 17MHz) or 120/40Mbps with VDSL2 vectoring (dedicated bandwidth of 34MHz). The second option requires and uses much more electricity in the street cabinet. Neither option compares to DOCSIS 3.0 (no requirement to update splitters), DOCSIS 3.1 (requires updated splitters in the networks) (shared bandwidth up to 2GHz) and those won't be able to compete with Fiber's shared or dedicated 1THz+ bandwidth.