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That's how DSL was supposed to work in the US. The telcos sabotaged it by not maintaining their copper lines and forced the independent ISPs out of business.
by kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
That's how DSL was supposed to work in the US. The telcos sabotaged it by not maintaining their copper lines and forced the independent ISPs out of business.
- Kadin 4y agoNot really; they just lobbied the Bush II Administration into crippling the Clinton-era rules that required them to allow competitive DSL providers. The requirement was called "Local Loop Unbundling" and it required the RBOCs (legacy local telcos, from when the Bell System was broken up) to lease "dry pairs" to various competitive DSL providers at reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates. And for a few years it worked! The dialup ISPs started to move into DSL services and it looked like we would have real competition (admittedly DSL, but this looked decent enough at the time). But they lobbied the shit out of Congress and got LLU killed in the early 00s.