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by matt-p 2y ago
This is V0, the actual requirements are regulations, which can be updated really easily. Much easier to pass a law with very basic requirements and increase them later. This is much better than nothing, which is what most countries have.
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by matt-p 3y ago
It would be impractical to roll out nationally without enormous levels of fare evasion. Once you leave London some stations don't have any ticket barriers, most stations will close ticket barriers once the evening peak is over and so o
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by matt-p 3y ago
I believe it. Verizon have a fairly extensive backbone in England and Scotland, all their own duct and chambers yet it's impossible to buy wholesale service from them, even if you're big. I wonder what it's used for :')
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by matt-p 3y ago
I'm not a big fan of privatisation either (particularly the way this was handled) however you realise under the GPO there were waiting lists to get a telephone line, and it could easily take months? Have you tried interacting with a st
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by matt-p 3y ago
NB 'Despite its faults'. I hope you complained to your MP, and/or ofcom? What alternative would you prefer? It would be ideal to turn openreach over to either it's own heavily regulated PLC or a MIC/COOP, but can we
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by matt-p 3y ago
That's not true either! Market 1/2/3 has been dead for well over a decade. Openreach and BTW pricing is consistent across the whole country.
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by matt-p 3y ago
That should only happen if your protection is at the optical layer which hasn't been common for a decade or more, partly for that reason. I've never seen it happen in 20 years. Although of course small parts of the path change ove
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by matt-p 3y ago
It's only slightly more peaky, and there is no more, or very little additional aggregate bandwidth used. I promise you if you've got 2 x 100G links out of an exchange you will not be able to visually tell from the traffic profile
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by matt-p 3y ago
BT also employ lobbiests, and there's regular controversy in the industry over ofcom not regulating them hard enough, or in why exactly they won the original 2010 era rural fibre contracts but overall I guess they simply don't wor
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by matt-p 3y ago
Are there western countries with no incumbent telecom provider? It is a fine concept but you'd have to actually ban infrastructure sharing between ISPs and be building a completely Greenfield network. Quite theoretical. I'm aware
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by matt-p 3y ago
I'm sorry but you cannot begin to compare ATT or Comcast customer service with say even BT in the UK. And if I value say customer service highly I get to choose from one of a hundred or more ISPs. Zen, or A&A for example probably
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by matt-p 3y ago
As apposed to private businesses who love making big capital heavy investments they don't need to make? The point stands though that the feedback loop between customer wants and the government is much much longer than between consumer
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by matt-p 3y ago
It depends how empowered your regulators are. In many European countries that's how it works and it is literally a better system than the government doing it themselves.
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by matt-p 3y ago
I disagree since BT/OR * don't rent out fibre or wavelengths. They rent out layer 2 vlans (they own the OLT at the exchange and the terminal in people's homes) this means they set the package speeds, price points and use what
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by matt-p 3y ago
That might be your perception, but let me give you real life state of affairs in the UK. In the last decade a number of ISPs have popped up and decided to fibre up areas. They are invariably buying OLTs from Nokia or Adtran (the same two ve
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by matt-p 3y ago
Just to be clear, I agree. Despite its faults, I still think we are quite fortunate to have BT Openreach in its current form as a country. I can understand that perception. Essentially, Openreach is regulated so heavily by the government th
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by matt-p 3y ago
well wholesale copper line rental in the uk is under £10 a month, and that includes capex pay back. So it is possible for an internet service but it will probably not be enough to allow for much if any allocation of the capex payback. (and
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by matt-p 3y ago
25Mb doesn't cost any more or less to provide than say 500Mb in reality. If your last mile infrastructure supports those speeds then it supports those speeds. Even the cheapest router possible to buy will do 500Mb. This comes down to a
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by matt-p 3y ago
Exactly. Govt owning physical fibre in a P2P network (i.e one fibre back to the pop per user) is perfectly fine because an ISP can encrypt between the pop and the user (that comes as standard with pon for example) but anything* involving
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by matt-p 3y ago
It's easier to build resilience as a single network or organization than by "hoping" to have that with two different ISPs (who will obviously both of taken the cheapest route dig wise between A and B). If I need two diverse f
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by matt-p 3y ago
In london I used to have 4 different physical fibre providers available plus one which is fibre to the building and cat5e to the prem. At a retail level there were hundreds of providers to choose from. Most of the country has more than one
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by matt-p 3y ago
That is not, and has never been, true. BT was privatized in 1984. Over the years since then, they've been forced by regulators to open up more and more of the stack to competing ISPs. At one point, you could buy wholesale services like
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by matt-p 3y ago
Unless I've been imagining it we have been desperately trying to reduce immigration since around 2016, it was what most of Brexit was about, after all. I literally can't turn on the news without some politician crowing about how t
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by matt-p 3y ago
Manchester has the same house price issues as London these days. Leeds or something could be appropriate though. The problem is the Tories were re-elected on the basis of 'leveling up' the regions but f-all has actually happened s
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by matt-p 3y ago
Exactly. Even of the part that is JavaScript it's mostly going to be tracking and ads. GA, segment and so on. Use of react and fetch is not unreasonable in 2024 folks.
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by matt-p 3y ago
Setting aside the 'how' that's certainly what the outcome has been, at least in the UK. We desperately need a pro growth government next. Desperately.
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by matt-p 3y ago
Hah, didn't know that. I think the point stands though, plenty of areas where doing this would gain a net benefit in terms of national (and perhaps even local as you say) voter support.
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by matt-p 3y ago
It was a tragically accurate description then. Also worth noting it is one of the cheapest places in zone 2, and only has trains or overground. It does feel (and is) genuinely unsafe, particularly if you don't get home from work until
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by matt-p 3y ago
I honestly believe it does depend on the voter. For 2) Conservatives would never be able to even if they wanted this, however labour have the option of picking say Oxford or the home counties to do this in where they have very few voters to
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by matt-p 3y ago
In the new cross area it's a minimum of 600k for a three bed and I'd say it meets pretty much all of the above criteria.

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