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While I understand that the US is a much larger country, and to some extend have different requirements and the same things may not be profitable, why not "simp
by mrweasel 2y ago
While I understand that the US is a much larger country, and to some extend have different requirements and the same things may not be profitable, why not "simply" require open access.
The Danish fiber infrastructure is in large parts build by the power companies, because they where doing the digging anyway. Other parts are build by ISPs, or as municipal projects. Once the fiber, or cable, is established all ISP can use it. This ensures that all companies have almost the same coverage and can offer their services around the country, but cutting down on the cost, by preventing parallel infrastructure from being build.
The areas where it's not financially viable to build out the infrastructure, like some islands, the municipalities or even the government, can step in an build the infrastructure, or pay a company to do it, and then leave the services to be offered by the ISPs.
- Enginerrrd 2y agoHow do they distribute bandwidth between the parties? What happens when a new company wants to use some bandwidth? Who pays for repairs and upgrades?
- mrweasel 2y agoThe company that owns the fiber, or cable, is allowed to charge a reasonable fee for managing the infrastructure. Because most of the companies owning the fibers aren't ISPs, but power companies or just infrastructure companies, the fee is normally the same for everyone. For bandwidth, I don't know, but they all share a database that customers can use to lookup what speeds are available for their address. I think what they do it that they have trunks coming in at various locations, so that after a certain point you transit from the fiber provider to the actual ISP. My fiber provide, which I never deal with, I only interact with the ISP, have connections to 130.000 homes and businesses. At their terminus the ISP needs to be present with a connection of their own, or more frequently, one they rent from back-haul providers. That allows me to pick from 13 different ISPs on a single fiber connections and about the same on the cable from the local cable-tv provider. Prices are pretty much identical, but then there are added services or the quality of the service where they differentiate.
- ftth_finland 2y agoA single fiber has enough bandwidth for complete nations; you aren’t going to run out of bandwidth anytime soon. How you share bandwidth between parties depends on the setup. More often than not the end user only has one service provider at a time, thus there is neither any sharing or contention.