| Re: EU leaders back risk-sharing in broadband Sounds like the EU incumbent operators are getting an incentive to run FTTH by removing regulation of wholesale access rates. This in effect can shut out 3rd party ISPs from using the fiber because they could then be non-competitive compared to the incumbent operators. Wow, sounds like the EU is taking lessons from US fiber policy.
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Wouldn't Korea or Japan be a better role model when it comes to fiber policy? We only have one company doing FTTH, and it was considered risky for them.
On the topic of "fiber prevents capping", I think that people will always find a use for more bandwidth, and hardware for bandwidth isn't unlimited. The only way to end capping is to design the network to support every person pushing 100% 24 hours a day. That's unnecessary, though I think companies that build networks should plan for customers to use more bandwidth than they expect. |
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Hey, at least their incumbents allow competitors on their network, with whatever access fees. Here in good old US the the incumbents were specifically told they do not need to share any fiber with nasty CLEC or ISP competitors.
What got me most about this article was EU spending $411B on broadband. Compare that to the $7B allocated to the US NTIA/RUS Broadband Technology Opportunity program. |
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3 edits | said by Supervisor:What got me most about this article was EU spending $411B on broadband. Compare that to the $7B allocated to the US NTIA/RUS Broadband Technology Opportunity program. That wasn't government money mentioned. It was money to be spent by the incumbents themselves. And the deregulation was being used to encourage them to spend it. Somewhat different than the US Stimulus pkg which is government money grants.
The proposal also doesn't mention how long it will take for the incumbents to spend that money for the upgrades. It could be 2 yrs, 5 yrs, 10 yrs; who knows??
Separate from the risk-sharing pact is a EU Stimulus pkg that has set aside 5 billion euro for both energy/broadband which is similar to the US stimulus pkg. Only 1 billion euro is for broadband:
»www.euractiv.com/en/opinion/eu-l···e-180502
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Well I think it makes sense that when a private company puts in new infrastructure that they get a few years of exclusivity. As soon as fiber has been around for a while, regulators will open it up. |
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