Usenet providers

Per Phil W Lee:
"(PeteCresswell)" considered Thu, 12 Jun 2014 09:21:32
-0400 the perfect time to write:

Per Phil W Lee:
... BT (who had a massive head start in that they started out with
ALL the telephone lines in the country) are obliged to share those
lines with any other ISP at the same price as they sell it internally
to their own retail ISPs. So I have a choice of over 100 ISPs
offering services over the BT network.

If you are in an area covered by what was originally conceived as
Cable TV, you have the additional option of getting an internet
service over that, from Virgin Internet (who acquired all other cable
companies in the UK). I'm not in a cabled area, so that option
doesn't apply to me (although I wouldn't use it if it was - I don't
find their limited offerings all that appealing).

ComCast is the cable provider here which also offers ISP services and
Verizon is the phone company.

The BT situation validates my initial feeling when the deregulation
movement started in the USA: the logical free-market thing to do was to
make the existing power companies and TelCos "Keepers of The Lines" and
let others fight it out over who provides the best service/content per
dollar.

Instead, we seem to have increasing aggregation of provider functions
and once Network Neutrality is dead I see the end of Internet as we have
known it.

Seems like for years and years big corporations have been staying up
late at night trying to figure out how to acquire/control the internet
and now they're about to succeed.

But that's just me...
--
Pete Cresswell

'UCK FUNKIN DBRIT BAG FLIPPN AHOLE'

Zen is also the name of my current ISP


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assume service is minimalist