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The problem is that telecom is already a heavy regulated area (for historical and technical reasons). Besides this, connecting to your competitor network is goi
by joseflavio 13y ago
The problem is that telecom is already a heavy regulated area (for historical and technical reasons). Besides this, connecting to your competitor network is going to be always a rigged game, just a handful of players will connect between them, that leads to monopoly... So I think it is virtually impossible to setup your own new company... I live in France and it is quite interesting to see the raise of the provider Free.fr, quite impressive how they defied all other big companies... (Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this ISP).
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- troebr 13y agoI used to live in France, DSL providers are a joke here. Verizon advertised $30 for single play (no phone, no television). In the end they added "fees" and taxes (what those are not included?), the price was $56 per month. The router is as shitty as it gets too. Now I moved and for $55 I have cable with optimum and it's way better. Still more expensive than Free, and still no tv/phone included.
- zobzu 13y agoFree has traffic shaping for anything going through their peering, but in particular apple and google. Good luck using youtube via free's peering. it's nearly impossible. I don't know many people on free.fr that use youtube at all, because it's too terribly slow (1min load for 3s of video?). It's barely acceptable for things like google play downloads. Their peering isn't net neutral at all.
- joseflavio 13y agoI think I dont notice because I use VPN all the time.
- xxpor 13y agoWhy does Google continue to peer with them then? The whole point of peering vs. transit is that two networks will connect for free to each other to get better service.