Subj : Re: SIO/SIO2K
To   : alterego
From : vorlon
Date : Wed May 06 2020 11:14:36

 al>   Re: SIO/SIO2K
 al>   By: Al to Vk3jed on Tue May 05 2020 12:03 pm
 
 Al> It's the same in Canada. There are only two choices here, the
 Al> cable company or the telco. Both wildly overpriced. Good
 Vj>> Here, we have literally dozens.
 Al> service yes, but...
 
 al> Actually, while it might appear we have dozens of ISPs in
 al> Australia, we dont.
 
 al> We have a single infrastructure provider - with "dozens" of
 al> resellers.

But before the creation of the NBN here, we had a wholesale provider
(Telstra), that used to sell to the retail arm of the same provider at a
cheaper price than what they sold to their wholsale customers.

I have first hand experiance with that, and it was very frustrating.

That same wholesale provider also wasn't expanding the network, to reach
out further than the big capital city's. Then we had the HFC war's, when
the two competing providers (The other being Optus), started putting two
sets of cables in the same streets. The mind is blown with how waistfull
that was.





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VK3HEG


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