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The US had exactly this back in late 1990s. Then the US government let the telcos off the hook for carrying all traffic. And thus the shitty system we have no

• toast0 3y ago
  Since congress never repealed the Telecom act of 1996, I wonder if the FCC could decide to reinstate it, as long as they applied it evenly instead of exempting cable like they did before; leading telcos to complain and it to not be enforced at all. Of course, enforcement on telcos was pretty iffy too. While initial DSL rollouts were subject to linesharing, expanded rollouts were designed to hit the exception so linesharing wasn't required. Additionally, it was pretty common for telcos to have retail prices less than the price for linesharing, so competitive carriers couldn't have price parity without losing money even before considering operating costs. If we get new legislation, we really need something with real separation; the company managing last mile should be separate from the company providing IP services. A last mile provider would be on the hook to get (ethernet) packets between my house and somewhere nearby where the IP service provider picks them up. This could be at a central exchange building, a local internet exchange if one exists, cable company headend locations, or somewhere mutually agreeable otherwise. But, there's not really any appetite for this kind of thing, so we're kind of stuck. sigh