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In the UK BT is required by law to provide access to their fibre at a wholesale price to enable competition. At least that is my understanding. Why not requir
by Ntrails 13y ago
In the UK BT is required by law to provide access to their fibre at a wholesale price to enable competition. At least that is my understanding.
Why not require something similar?
- delinka 13y agoWe do ... for landline telephone service. The telecomm companies had to put up with that for so long that when other communications services started seeing demand, they did what they could to lobby away similar regulation for internet access. What it boils down to in most places is that internet access is not (legally) a public utility and therefore skirts public utility regulation.
- piqufoh 13y agoSimply because US ISPs have spent millions of $$ on lobbyists to avoid precisely this.