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by protocolture
89 days ago
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The government should have torn up your copper monopolies a few decades earlier, but the one thing the US has done right is sort of letting local power companies and ISPs work it out for themselves where it comes to fibre. Enforcing a single standard everywhere is bad actually. |
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https://www.gov.uk/guidance/project-gigabit-uk-gigabit-progr...
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/02/milestone-as-g...
If you were a savvy businessman, you could make a lot of money just connecting customers with FTTH rather than the prior situation. There was an explosion of "altnets" build off the backs of this legislation
https://web.archive.org/web/20151015205446/http://www.alphr....
Funnily enough BT got a bucketload of money from the government and did absolutely cock all with it.
Even funnier the formerly big 5 isps are rated some of the lowest on customer satisfaction despite being actual cash cows for years https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/new-which-surv...