[Teever]

> AFAIK there are no similar regulations for the fibre networks as those were not subsidized.

Which irks me because these companies were able to build out these fibre networks because of the advantage that they received from being practically gifted publicly owned utilities.

[donmcronald]

They also charge the government insane rates which is it’s own kind of hidden subsidy.

[lebuffon]

And here we thought Russia was the only place that this kind of thing happened. Who knew? ;-)