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>> My employer's Internet connection is *guaranteed* to be 5 Mbit/sec in both
>> directions at all times. (There are also contractual guarantees about how
>> quickly the ISP will fix it if it breaks.)
>>
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>> How much do you pay for your broadband?
>
> Ouch!
Yeah, well, it's 5 Mbit/sec IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. (ADSL is typically 5
Mbit/sec up and 0.5 Mbit/sec down.) And it has service guarantees. And a
static IP address. Etc. In other words, it's a business package, not a
residential package. Hence the price tag.
> However, nobody here expands into rural areas. The reason is simple: if you
> are in communications and invest into infrastructure, our laws force the
> companies to "open" their lines to competitors at very cheap rates. So new
> cables are only places below surface where they can be reasonably sure that
> enough customers will stay with them to make it worth their while. That is
> only the case where many people are crammed into very small spaces, like the
> large cities. Free markets are not always good...
Laws forcing companies to do things doesn't sound like a very "free"
market to me...
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