[TriLUG] FCC may step in to pre-empt TWC like legislation

[Bill Farrow]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Carl Schaefer <schaefer at trilug.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 11:44 -0400, Gary Carr wrote:
>> When I was in the ISP business we faced this very issue in the Scotland
>> county market. The city of Laurinburg used grant money to lay fiber
>> around the county and directly complete against us or I should say under
>> cut us and made it impossible to exist in that market.

I thought the UK had gone the same way as Australia and regulated the
connection into the home as a common carrier service. This opened the
market to numerous ISP's who provide backhaul, billing, add-ons, etc
and lower rates due to competition.

Bill