[Gllug] To LLU or Not to LLU?

[Juergen Schinker]

  Yeah, right.
> 
> In the early days of telephone service, there were multiple competing
> private operators. They eventually lost money and ended up being privatised,
> becoming part of the GPO. That's how BT's network got started.
> 
> In the 1980s and 1990s, cable companies started installing their own last
> mile cable networks. Unfortunately, the build out was very expensive - of
> the order of a thousand pounds per customer - and the service tended to be
> worse and more expensive than BT. Eventually they all went bust or merged,
> producing the Virgin media we have today. Virgin's service is infamously
> awful, probably because they can't afford to make it work properly.
> 
> There was also Ionica in the 1990s who used wireless for the last mile. They
> too found build-out too expensive and went bust in 1998. Eventually, BT was
> compelled to come in and pick up the pieces, subsidising Ionica in its last
> days and ensuring the customers continued to have service. Ionica never even
> got as far as offering Internet access.
> 
> It thus seems that it is not possible to provide a service cheaper than BT
> and still make enough profit to stay in business. This implies that BT's
> prices are about right.
> 

I agree and i didn't know that

but how do you explain that major cities in europa and japan

have sync 100Mbit Internet connection from private companies

and in the capitol of uk you can be happy when you get 8Mbit down

and something up

who is stopping innovation and competition?
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