[nevergetenglish]

"Lack of service for hours every day", is that a personal experience?

Telefonica was providing services in villages and small towns with very difficult geography (mountains, roads, ...). Now there is a big competition in Spain, for example Jazztel is offering 200Gigabit/s up-down for 36 euros/moth and phone tax included. Our country is getting better in the IT sector and telefonica was the pioneer. It is easy to critique but in the old times there was no other option, and for many to have the opportunity to be connected is much better than to be out of the web.

[icebraining]

"Lack of service for hours every day", is that a personal experience?

Yes, it's clear from the post that it is from personal experience. Why would you think otherwise?

Telefonica was providing services in villages and small towns with very difficult geography

Yes, back when it was a public company; that was just their responsibility.

It is easy to critique but in the old times there was no other option

Yes, but neither BSousa nor I were talking about dial-up times. Nor was the EU when they fined Telefonica for anti-trust violations, multiple times: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefónica#Monopoly

[nevergetenglish]

BSousa is commenting in another post down that in Manilva (a town in Spain) the service went down for two days ? (that's all). I posted a link in which Manilva is going to be the first town in Andalusia with 100% optic fiber (only telefonica) and now has 4G. There is one comment in that page from one people living there, and he says: At last we are going out of the prehistoric time.

There is a headline: Peter Thiel: Google Is A Monopoly - Business Insider

[icebraining]

I don't see how is the fact that Telefonica is wiring a town with FTTH incompatible with what has been said about them.

There is a headline: Peter Thiel: Google Is A Monopoly - Business Insider

Being a monopoly isn't illegal, abusing that position is, and that's what Telefonica was fined for.

[collyw]

Living in Spain, I haven't noticed much to differentiate ISP's on compared to the UK. Telefonica seem very average to me, and their service was pretty reliable when we had it.

I live in Barcelona, is it likely that bigger cities get better service than other places?

[nevergetenglish]

I can't see the reply button for the comment down this.

There is a headline: Peter Thiel: Google Is A Monopoly - Business Insider