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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 |
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Zen is also the name of my current ISP
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