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Re: EU leaders back risk-sharing in broadband 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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