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It's the reason telcos and ISPs in Denmark offer high-speed, affordable services. If the naturally occurring circumstances aren't conducive to a competitive mar
by m12k 4y ago
It's the reason telcos and ISPs in Denmark offer high-speed, affordable services. If the naturally occurring circumstances aren't conducive to a competitive market, using regulation to ensure those circumstances do occur seems like one of the lightest touches you can do, regulation-wise, to avoid market failures.
- arghwhat 4y agoNote: this works poorly in DK. See the stories from the Hiper guys about how YouSee treats other providers in YouSee's coax network. Dong also royally screwed up fiber deployment in many areas, and when TDC got it most stuff stalled in some places for what, a decade? And for some reason we're still putting coax into new buildings instead of fiber (e.g. all of Ørestad). Coax sucks. Throughput is nice but latency is an order of magnitude worse than fiber. /rant
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoDenmark is rated as one of the best countries for internet access. Though so is the US, just with high costs. America can be a weird mix of sensible government policy and anti-regulation, pro-corporate insanity. In this case it seems like a government-corporate effort forced other corporates to act and managed to beat legislative attempts to maintain monopolies. https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-google-fiber-is-high-speed-internets-most-successful-failure https://hbr.org/2018/09/why-google-fiber-is-high-speed-inter...
- kennywinker 4y agoTo be clear, I am not skeptical about regulation in general - i am skeptical about this specific regulatory strategy.
- m12k 4y agoRight, and to be clear, I was answering that this specific regulatory strategy (forcing ISPs and telcos to let their competitors use their infrastructure with specific terms, including a cap on the profit margin they can charge for this) is in effect and working well in Denmark.