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Google's "disruption" like believing civil engineering can be treated like most of their services - done quick, cheap and shut down when it (literally) unravels? They literally abandoned one of the city networks they built because their "disruptive" microtrenching was failing.In my dreams, there needs to be more competition, and hopefully in time that will come -- I dream. There really needs to be a disruptive force like a multi-billion dollar corp like Google Fiber, or something to come in and add some real competition nation-wide, and then things might change. The UK is just not a market ripe for that kind of investment or disruption unfortunately imo.
The US is not the country to look to for competition. The UK already does it far better - and if you believe we must have physical infrastructure competition - altnets serve that purpose well.
It must be asked - if Openreach are the only company willing to serve you, then you have to ask yourself why. Certainly there is no "dictatorship" - anyone can dig up any street. It's all about the business case.Thats sucks for bt why not make the market like the us the only regulatory system is there for the customer so they don't get done by companies but other than that in the USA market in that particular area it runs smoothly Either its Ofcom who feck it up or Openreach/BT i dont have enough information to determine which
Nvm its definitely Ofcom
If you want the UK to be like the US, you'd have even less of a chance of seeing an altnet, and Openreach would be merged back into BT and limited to providing BT/EE broadband services only. You'd probably be on cable internet and increasingly likely to have a data cap if you're in one of the many parts of the US without competition.
Ofcom aren't going to get involved and demand that Openreach provide faster upload speeds or symmetric service. Their main priority is price, and availability of competition. Openreach is already regulated in what they can charge and how they work with non-BT companies.























