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by lkjhgfd 3906 days ago
>Another solution would be to minimise state intervention (because "free market"), and thus let providers build their own last miles —and lease them if they want to. The result? A local monopoly at worst, and an oligopoly at best.

Is there actually any evidence of this? Here in the US, we often have on cable company providing cable internet, plus another company offering DSL (high speed land phone line) internet, several offering cell mobile internet (4G & HSPA+), plus satellite internet (not great, but it's there).
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loup-vaillant 3906 days ago
That is an oligopoly: You only have 2 high bandwidth providers.

The wireless offering do not count. Satellite is too slow, and virtually all 4G offering are not even internet connections: they don't give you a public IP.

Your very situation is evidence of what I am saying.

(Also note that you have one company on the cable, and one company on the DSL. Only one per physical line. Here in France, we at least have 4 big players in the DSL alone, and a number of very small ISPs that nobody knows.)

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