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Re: Big Jim: translation... if they enforced the Telecom act of 1996 we'd see more than the few telcos we have today when requiring others to build out their network. Now the only way to do this is to require open access on the telephone networks or to "spin" off the actual last mile. But then you have the problem with who is going to manage that last mile. in the UK it is still BT that manages and decides who gets to be on that network. So it really didn't do much.
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North TX, US | Really?
»arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news···tion.ars
In under-served areas BT can either choose to develop those communities themselves or private companies are allowed to go ahead and do it themselves and reap the profits for doing so.
Where no substantial competition exists, the regulator, Ofcom, uses price controls to ensure that those areas are not being gouged by the incumbents.
And this is only DSL-based, the cable-based industry in the UK offers substantial speeds across much of their footprint.
I looked into what sort of speeds I could receive at my old UK address a couple of weeks ago, out of interest. Turns out that if I wanted I could receive 50Mbit cable (with a free wireless-N router) for $57 a month, less with bundled savings; or 20Mbit DSL, with likely higher speeds from both cable and DSL available later this year.
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| yes Ofcom may price control but who still gets to decide on the network. BT. It still didn't do anything. It's still their network and they do as they wish expect with someone saying "hey you can't charge that" we already had that and it didnt' work.
The only other option. Force companies to start building out their own networks; the same thing the Telecom Act '96 was suppose to do.
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1 edit | Actually, ownership of the infrastructure was spun off into a separate company called BT Openreach which manages wiring and connections on behalf of BT and also ensures that any competitor has equal access to the equipment.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openreach
»www.openreach.co.uk/orpg/home/home.do
A perfect system? No, but leaps and bounds ahead of what passes for "competition" here in the US.
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